Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences

The Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences VI Lenin ( Russian Всесоюзная академия сельскохозяйственных наук имени В. И. Ленина ) was the Soviet Academy of Agriculture (AdL) named after Lenin . It included a network of research institutions across the entire Soviet Union and existed from 1929 to 1992.

Between 1930 and 1940 the academy provided the platform for the rise of Trofim Denisovich Lyssenko . Lysenko tried to impose his own views ( Lysenkoism ), which, as far as happened, had disastrous consequences for the agriculture of the USSR. During the period of close cooperation between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union against Hitler until the immediate post-war period, the Soviet geneticists succeeded in using Western research successfully as a “ second front ” against Lysenko.

This was reversed with the beginning of the Cold War . The proverbial “August meeting” (July 31 - August 7, 1948) under the direction of Stalin had far-reaching consequences. Lyssenko's introductory speech “On the Situation in Biology” was transformed into a formal ban against so-called Mendel-Weismann-Morgan genetics with the help of Stalin . With this, the teachings of Gregor Mendel , August Weismann and Thomas Hunt Morgan - and thus modern heredity as such - were rejected in the Soviet Union until the 1960s.

The GDR took a separate path in that, in the 1950s, Hans Stubbe refuted Lyssenko's views on the inheritance of acquired traits and thus the academy institutes in the GDR could continue to do genetic research.

President

1929–1935 - Nikolai Wawilow
1935–1937 - Alexander Muralov
1938-1956 - Trofim Lysenko
1959–1961 - Pavel Lobanov
1961–1962 - Trofim Lysenko
1962–1965 - Mikhail Olschansky
1965–1978 - Pavel Lobanov
1978–1983 - Pyotr Vavilov
1984–1992 - Alexander Nikonov

The successor was the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences .

Web links

LibWorld - Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL)

Footnotes

^ David Joravsky: The Lysenko affair. University of Chicago Press, 1986, ISBN 0-226-41031-5 .
^ NL Krementsov: Stalinist science. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1997, ISBN 0-691-02877-X .
^ Arnd Bauerkämper : Rural society in the communist dictatorship. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-412-16101-2 . (Volume 21 of Contemporary History Studies)

[1] David Joravsky: The Lysenko affair. University of Chicago Press, 1986, ISBN 0-226-41031-5 .

[2] NL Krementsov: Stalinist science. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1997, ISBN 0-691-02877-X .

[3] Arnd Bauerkämper : Rural society in the communist dictatorship. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-412-16101-2 . (Volume 21 of Contemporary History Studies)