Archive for June 5th, 2008
Stalin’s “Barefoot Scientist”
By Sean at 5 June, 2008, 8:40 am
This week’s edition of In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg focuses on the life and times of Stalin’s “Barefoot Scientist” Trofim Lysenko. As always it is a thoughtful and interesting discussion not only on how a fraud like Lysenko could rise in Stalin’s Russia, but also the regime’s general relationship to science, particularly to [...]
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