Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three biggest traitors in the history of the Soviet Union...
...party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
...political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked at a party meeting why he spoke that way." Lysenko himself was invited to speak. He attacked...
...accident that all this coincided with fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than...
...press, no less than to the U.S. State Department, the uninvited guest from Moscow posed a real dilemma. Behind the little black mustache of Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Premier, resided two men. One-the official emissary of a state dedicated to world conquest-was well concealed by the other: a good-will salesman, radiating charm, beaming his subtle pitch directly at the people, and possessing the built-in news value of a mysterious visitor from a mysterious land. The dilemma was: How to report on the fascinating, amiable salesman while keeping a clear eye on the suspicious nature...