@HygieneMentale Merci pour le partage ! Ironie toutefois, la critique du #lyssenkisme faite dans cet interview n'a pas l'air complètement honnête sur l'état des connaissances historiographiques sur le sujet depuis plus de 10 ans, je le cite :
le lyssenkisme, qui, dans l’Union soviétique de #Staline, entraîna le bannissement de la génétique au nom de l’idéologie #communiste
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Sur #Lyssenko, il y a peu d’archives.
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#TrofimLyssenko est à part. C’est un #agronome de base qui, grâce à #Staline, arrive à dominer la biologie en #UnionSoviétique et à faire interdire la génétique jugée "bourgeoise"
Je n'ai pas encore vu ce qu'en dit précisément le documentaire, peut-être que les propos racontent une histoire plus honnête. Dans tous les cas je recommande très fortement le papier « Pavel Pantelimonovich Luk’ianenko and the Origins of the Soviet Green Revolution » présenté au « Second International Workshop on Lysenkoism », en 2012 ! Par l'historien #MarkTauger, étatsunien ( #WestVirginiaUniversity ) russophone, non connu pour être marxiste, et reconnu comme expert de l'histoire de l'agriculture russe.

Je ne cite ci-dessous que sa conclusion, mais le détail est tout aussi intéressant, notamment concernant la récente « furie anti-science » qu'est devenue la campagne pro-« Holodomor », soit-disant « génocide par la faim ukrainien » en 1932-33 (appelée « #Holodomor » uniquement d'ailleurs depuis la seconde vague de propagande mensongère issue d' #Harvard durant les années #Reagan) :
[F]. Conclusions

The work of #Lukianenko and certain other grain breeders led to an explosion of research on HYVs in #Russia from the 1960s onward, as well as substantial genetics research and greatly improved education that began even before #Lysenko’s removal from power. These topics, however, lie outside the scope of this article. (109) This study of #Lukianenko challenges the prevailing view that #Lysenko held back Soviet genetics for a generation. While certainly during the heyday of #Lysenkoism, the #Soviet regime victimized many excellent #Soviet geneticists and wasted money and time on fraudulent Lysenkoists’ “research,” many other scientists conducted valid, substantial, and important work—particularly in the area of plant breeding. #Lukianenko was not the only agricultural scientist who did such research in these years, but his work had more national and international significance than that of any other #Soviet agricultural scientist in this period.

This work differed greatly from the conventional view of scientific research in the time of #Lysenko: #Lukianenko’s work began before #Lysenko’s rise and continued despite his dominance. #Lukianenko’s work relied substantially on plant varieties from outside the #USSR, in many cases brought into the #USSR through the work of #NikolaiVavilov. He also relied on conventional principles of genetics, including the guidelines for plant breeding published by #Vavilov, as well as some breeding theories and techniques from outside the #USSR. In particular he and his co-workers independently sought and achieved the same goals as the Italians around #Strampelli in the early 20th century and #Borlaug in the #GreenRevolution of the 1950s-1960s.

#Lukianenko’s work during #Lysenko’s time and afterwards produced several extremely important wheat varieties that had the same characteristics as the #GreenRevolution varieties created by #Borlaug. #Lukianenko’s Bezostaia-1, a semi-dwarf rust resistant HYV earned the highest praise from European and American breeders including #Borlaug as one of the best of the HYVs. This finding thus goes beyond even #Krementsov’s points about scientists’ evasion of #Lysenko. The work of #Lukianenko and his colleagues, more than simply continuing previous genetics-based work in plant breeding, achieved breakthroughs that put it at the forefront of world wheat breeding, both in their methods and their results. Because of the accomplishments of #Lukianenko and his co-workers in #Krasnodar, a post-Soviet Russian symposium on breeding of wheat and triticale commemorating #Lukianenko was entitled “The Green Revolution of P. P. Luk’ianenko.” (111) Thus despite #Lysenko, Soviet agronomists and #agriculture thus participated in the international #GreenRevolution under #Lysenko’s dominance as well as afterwards.

Les principaux travaux de #MarkTauger sont traduits en français depuis 2017 dans le livre « Famine et Transformation Agricole en URSS ».

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