Trofim Lysenko
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.
Lysenko in 1938
Verbatim report of the 1948 VASKhNIL session
Lysenko in 1959
Lysenko's grave at the Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow
Great Chinese Famine
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The Great Chinese Famine was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China. Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the deadl
Trofim Lysenko
…The Atlantic writer Sam Kean contends that Chinese agricultural methods utilized in the late 1950s were inspired by Lysenko, and contributed to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962. In 1955, an attempt was made to disempower Lysenko, with a letter signed by more than three hundred scientists, the so-called "Letter…
The public dining hall (canteen) of a people's commune. The slogan on the wall reads "Eating is free, strive to produce".
The Eurasian tree sparrow was targeted in the Eliminate Sparrows campaign
Backyard furnaces for producing steel
Premier Zhou Enlai (center front) visited Luokou Yellow River Bridge during the 1958 Yellow River flood.