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...LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (160 pp.)-Alexander Solzhenltsyn -Duffon...
...LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (210 pp.)-Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Praeger...
...book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, tells the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived-or perished. A typical day: chased from bed at 5 a.m. for a bowl of soupy gruel, herded to work on a construction project guarded by sadistic overseers, fall back...
...Still echoed by Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, who was Stalin's favorite scientist, then was deposed, but is now back in favor as president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences...
J.B.S. Haldane, Britain's leading geneticist and a staunch Communist, has been beset for some time now by a problem of basic loyalties. Should he follow the Moscow-approved genetics line of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms)? Or should he follow the Morgan-Mendelian theory (that the genes in the reproductive cells control heredity), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., but formally denounced by Soviet officialdom as unscientific and un-Marxist...