Stalinist Genetics: The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko

Stanchevici, Dmitri

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“…Al comienzo de su «agrobiología», Lysenko puso a Darwin a la par de quienes dijo que originaron su modelo teórico, Michurin y Timiryazev. Con el tiempo, y la presión de los propios lysenkoístas para desterrar influencias extranjeras reconocibles, el estatus de Darwin se redujo(Stanchevici, 2017).…”

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Velikaya sila (1950) y lysenkoismo en biología animal

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Muy conocido en botánica, el lysenkoísmo también actuó en biología animal. Esta faceta menos manifiesta fue exhibida ante millones de espectadores en la Unión Soviética y otros países del bloque del Este a través de la película Velikaya sila, 1950, de Friedrich Ermler. La sociohistoria cinematográfica de Marc Ferro permite analizar la película como transmisora de las preocupaciones y autolegitimaciones del régimen, así como de las ideas de charlatanería sobre la ciencia creadas por Lysenko. Al comienzo de la Guerra Fría, un tema aparentemente insípido como la biología animal se convirtió en el centro de la lucha cultural entre los imperios colonialistas occidentales y el imperio soviético.

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The Rhetorical Construction of Social Classes in the Reports of Stalin's Secret Police

Stanchevici

2013

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Stalin's government received information about the political and economic situation in the countryside through the reports prepared by the security service VChK-OGPU-NKVD. This article reveals that these reports (svodkas in Russian) strain to rhetorically construct a social classification of the peasantry by dividing it into the kulaks (wealthy peasants hostile to Soviet power), the bednyaks (poor peasants supporting Soviet power), and the serednyaks (peasants of average means with uncertain attitudes to the regime). The svodkas persuaded their audience-the secret police and the governments-of the reality of this tripartite classification. This persuasion derived from their massiveness, secretiveness, and mixture of ideological and technical language. Since these conditions inhere in modern governmental, technical, and scientific discourse, the writers for these fields should be aware that when they engage in constructing order through classification, they face temptations of what Kenneth Burke calls rhetoric of hierarchy with its scapegoat principle.Following the October revolution of 1917, the newly founded Soviet Russia's secret police VChK (later to become OGPU, then NKVD, and still later KGB) instituted a department for collecting information about political moods and actions all over the country. This information trickled up from local informers, to regional ChK agents, then to the central VChK office, and finally to the political 261 Ó 2013, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.

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Lessons from Lysenko

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2017

The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2

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Stalinist Genetics: The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko

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Velikaya sila (1950) y lysenkoismo en biología animal

Velikaya sila (1950) y lysenkoismo en biología animal

The Rhetorical Construction of Social Classes in the Reports of Stalin's Secret Police

Lessons from Lysenko

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