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By Nikolai Krementsov. 280 pp., illustrated. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002. $26. ISBN 0-226-45284-0.

This book reveals the gloomy scientific and political environment of Russian medical science before and after World War II that has been unknown to science historians because of its "top secret" classification. The Soviet empire maintained a wide network of research institutes that belonged to various scientific institutions. Many laboratories at these institutions employed talented and qualified researchers. However, highly politicized and bureaucratic management and secrecy presented a serious hurdle to scientific progress in Joseph Stalin's era. The biologic sciences were dominated by a favorite of the political establishment, an agronomist named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, who advocated the "Marxist theory" . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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