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The murder of Nikolai Vavilov : the story of Stalin's persecution of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century Peter Pringle.
- Title
- The murder of Nikolai Vavilov : the story of Stalin's persecution of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century Peter Pringle.
- Author
- Pringle, Peter, 1940 June-
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Describes the life and career of Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist who created the world's first seed bank, and his political problems and persecution later in life that resulted in his imprisonment and death.
- Subject
- Stalin, Joseph
- Vavilov, N. I
- Vavilov, N. I. 1887-1943
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
- Vavilov, N. I. 1887-1943
- Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
- Geschichte 1916-1943
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1916-1943
- Genetics
- Communism
- History, 20th Century
- Genetics > history
- Communism > history
- Genetics
- Plant breeders > Soviet Union > Biography
- Plant geneticists > Soviet Union > Biography
- Political purges > Soviet Union > History > 20th century
- Political atrocities > Soviet Union > History > 20th century
- Communism > history > Russia > Biography
- Genetics > history > Russia > Biography
- Russia
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-346) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue : Ukraine, August 6, 1940 -- Moscow, December 1905 -- The Petrovka and Katya -- In Darwin's library -- Moscow, Summer 1916 -- On the roof of the world, 1916 -- Revolution and civil war -- The gardener of Kozlov -- Lenochka -- Petrograd : city of ravens -- Ingots of platinum -- Afghanistan, 1924 -- Abyssinia, 1926 -- The barefoot scientist -- The great break -- State security file 006854 -- The passionate patriot -- A modest compromise -- The Red professor -- The last expedition -- Thunder and dragons -- The Lysenko Offensive -- The showdown -- The terror -- Into the pyre -- Comrad philosophers -- The arrest -- The interrogation -- Return to Saratov -- "Oleg, where are you?" -- Epilogue. Vavilov's ghost ; main events in the life of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ; sources and archives.
- ISBN
- 9780743264983 (hardcover)
- 0743264983 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2008003510
- OCLC
- 191751584
- SCSB-10210387
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library