roxrkool

Hmmm..... how much of an effect did this *movement* have on geologic studies in Russia?

I expect it must have been significant, but in my experience, Russian geologic research has always been rather good - minus the fact that many times one cannot deduce the scale nor location [which was intentionally left out] of some/most of the research... but at least the *science* is good.

How long did this last and is it still affecting research today?

Coragyps

rox - I'm not any sort of expert on this, but I understand that the biological sciences were the only ones really affected - Stalin didn't feel that Mendelian genetics was very Marxist, and studying it might have undermined the rule of the proletariat. The whole Lysenko spin started dying out after Stalin died, and has been pretty much forgotton as far as I know. It never really affected geology, 'cause I guess rocks can't be workers for the Soviet anyway.

roxrkool

ha! I guess not!!!

Okay, the biological implications make sense and who but nerds care about geology anyway?

As for literature, if I remember correctly, written works have always been very important to the Russian people, so I can see how that would be important to the Soviets as well.

Thanks, Coragyps.

HRG

Right. "Mendelism-Weismanism-Morganism" in Stalin's time was the equivalent of "evolutionism" to a fundamentalist. One of the reasons given was that genes were an idealist concept, opposed to the materialism underlying Marxist philosophy.

At least, today's fundamentalists don't have the power to send people to the Gulag, or worse.

Regards,
HRG.

Bobby B.

They would if they could! Don't doubt that for a second.

Bob

P.S. They scare me...