Trofim Lysenko
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A crackpot Soviet biologist whose agricultural techniques were adopted in China during the Great Leap Forward, producing more agricultural disaster.
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Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | Lex Fridman Podcast #444
Lex Fridman
A crackpot Soviet biologist whose agricultural techniques were adopted in China during the Great Leap Forward, producing more agricultural disaster.
Michael Malice | The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union | Lecture Two
Peterson Academy
Promoted theories rejecting Mendelian genetics in favor of Lamarckian inheritance, leading to the ridicule of Soviet biology.