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[Composite of three photos in Russia: T.D. Lysenko holding up onions in meeting, crowd of people at meeting in Moscow, and group of people inspecting grain in field] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Composite of three photos in Russia: T.D. Lysenko holding up onions in meeting, crowd of people at meeting in Moscow, and group of people inspecting grain in field], [1949] — historic photograph
[Composite of three photos in Russia: T.D. Lysenko holding up onions in meeting, crowd of people at meeting in Moscow, and group of people inspecting grain in field], [1949]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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[Composite of three photos in Russia: T.D. Lysenko holding up onions in meeting, crowd of people at meeting in Moscow, and group of people inspecting grain in field]

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Few pictures show the Soviet agricultural campaigns of the late 1940s as directly as this three-part composite, which pairs Trofim Lysenko holding up onions at a meeting with a Moscow crowd and a group examining grain in a field. Lysenko, an agronomist who promoted methods such as vernalization and rejected Mendelian genetics, saw his views made official in August 1948, when a session of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences condemned genetics. The Russian caption, which marks the image as part of a photo exhibition, presents his work as a model for collective farms, reflecting the state's effort to bring scientific research under political direction.

Created / published[1949]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortraits 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.Reproductions 1940-1950.
NotesPhotovistavka photo. Caption in Russian.
SubjectsLysenko, Trofim Denisovich,--1898-1976--Public appearances. Agriculture--Soviet Union--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,106 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169600

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