The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2

Part I. The Lysenko Controversy: East and West

1. Opportunism and Enforcement: Hungarian Reception of Michurinist Biology in the Cold War Period
Gábor Palló, Miklós Müller

2. Lysenko in Bellagio: The Lysenko Controversy and the Struggle for Authority Over Italian Genetics (1948–1956)
Francesco Cassata

3. The National Pattern of Lysenkoism in Romania
Cristiana Oghina-Pavie

4. H.J. Muller and J.B.S. Haldane: Eugenics and Lysenkoism
William deJong-Lambert

5. Why Did Japanese Geneticists Take a Scientific Interest in Lysenko’s Theories?
Hirofumi Saito

Part II. The Lysenko Effects: Biology and Philosophy

6. Dialectics Denied: Muller, Lysenkoism, and the Fate of Chromosomal Mutation
Luis Campos

7. Lessons from Lysenko
John Marks

8. Current Attempts at Exonerating ‘Lysenkoism’ and Their Causes
Eduard I. Kolchinsky

Keywords: History, History of Science, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Foreign Policy