The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov : The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

from Chris_El

A Russian scientist, brilliant maintains a single of desire: to breed different varieties of plants from around the world that might help to end starvation. He found plants in different parts of the world with characteristics that fit the area and created the world's largest seed bank and began t...

from japaul22

I had high hopes for this book from reading some reviews and descriptions of this book. Overall, I would say I was disappointed. This is a biography of the Russian scientist and botanist, Vavilov. The book, however, mainly focuses on Vavilov's problems with the Soviet regime throughout his career...

from kukulaj

I have heard about Lysenko and his destruction of Soviet biology, but just little fragments. Vavilov was the leading enemy of Lysenko, at least that's the picture painted by this book. Vavilov was a proponent of Mendel's theories of genetics - the combining and recombining of discrete elements, g...

from GrumpyBob

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov is a very readable account, not merely of the death of Vavilov, but of his life. Of course, the main interest is in the battle between Lysenko (and the Lamarkians) and Vavilov (and the geneticists) for control of biological science in the Stalin era Soviet Union. Ult...