Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovych Lysenko ( Ukrainian: Віталій Романович Лисенко ).

One of his principal sources was the kobzar Ostap Veresai ( after whom Lysenko later named his son ).

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (,, Trochym Denysovyč Lysenko ) ( November 20, 1976 ) was a Soviet pseudoscientist of Ukrainian origin, who was director of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin.

Lysenko coined the term " Jarovization " to describe a chilling process he used to make the seeds of winter cereals behave like spring cereals (" Jarovoe "); this term was translated as " vernalization " from the Latin " vernum " for western texts.

In 1932 Lysenko was given his own journal, The Bulletin of Vernalization, and it became the main outlet for touting emerging developments of Lysenkoist research.

One of the most celebrated of the earliest agricultural applications developed by Lysenko was a process of increasing the success of wheat crops by soaking the grain and storing the wet seed in snow to refrigerate over the winter (" vernalization ").

Lysenko was viewed as someone who could deliver practical methods more rapidly, and with superior results.

Lysenko himself spent much time denouncing academic scientists and geneticists, claiming that their isolated laboratory work was not helping the Soviet people.

In regards to the triffids ' creation, some editions of the novel make brief mention of the theories of the Soviet agronomist and would-be biologist Trofim Lysenko ; eventually thoroughly debunked, Lysenkoism at the time of the novel's creation was still being defended by some prominent international Stalinists.

Another post-war activity was Huxley's attack on the Soviet politico-scientist Trofim Lysenko, who had espoused a Lamarckian heredity, made unscientific pronouncements on agriculture, used his influence to destroy classical genetics in Russia and to move genuine scientists from their posts.

In 1940, the leading botanical geneticist Nikolai Vavilov was arrested, and Lysenko replaced him as director of the Institute of Genetics.

Lysenko ended his days in a Soviet mental hospital, and Vavilov's reputation was posthumously restored in 1955.

His initially favourable view was changed by his growing awareness of Stalin's murderous repression, and the Lysenko affair.

A form of Lamarckism was revived in the Soviet Union of the 1930s when Trofim Lysenko promoted Lysenkoism which suited the ideological opposition of Joseph Stalin to genetics.

Muller and much of the Russian genetics community did what they could to oppose Trofim Lysenko and his Larmarckian evolutionary theory, but Muller was soon forced to leave the Soviet Union after Stalin read a translation of his eugenics book and was " displeased by it, and ... ordered an attack prepared against it.

Lysenkoism, or Lysenko-Michurinism was the centralized political control exercised over genetics and agriculture by Trofim Lysenko and his followers.

Lysenko was the director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Lysenkoism was built on theories of the heritability of acquired characteristics that Lysenko named " Michurinism ".

When Lysenko began his fieldwork in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, the agriculture of the Soviet Union was in a massive crisis due to rapid changes in switching from an agrarian-based economy towards an industrial economy leading to mismanagement of collective farms.

Lysenko was admitted into the hierarchy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and was put in charge of agricultural affairs.

Nevertheless, with the media's help, Lysenko enjoyed the popular image of the " barefoot scientist "— the embodiment of the mythic Soviet peasant genius.

Lysenko continued to research and transcribe the repertoire of other kobzars from other regions such as Opanas Slastion from Poltava and Pavlo Bratytsia from Chernihiv.

When Shevchenko's body was brought to Ukraine after his death in 1861, Lysenko was a pallbearer.

* The World of Mykola Lysenko: Ethnic Identity, Music, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Ukraine.

* " Role of Internet-based Information Flows and Technologies in Electoral Revolutions: The Case of Ukraine ’ s Orange Revolution ”, Lysenko, V. V., and Desouza, K. C., First Monday, 15 ( 9 ), 2010,

Statue of Mykola Lysenko in Kiev.

During his time at Kiev University, Lysenko collected and arranged Ukrainian folksongs, which were published in seven volumes.

He graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy in 1901, then studied in the Lysenko School of Music and Drama, 1908 – 1910.

From 1918 to 1922, he was the director of the Music-drama school of M. Lysenko in Kiev, where, amongst others, Vladimir Horowitz was a pupil in his masterclasses.

) Lysenko's ideas proved appealing to the Soviet leadership, in part because of their value as propaganda, and he was ultimately made director of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences ; subsequently, Lysenko directed a purge of scientists who professed " harmful ideas ," resulting in the expulsion, imprisonment, or death of hundreds of Soviet scientists.

Under Stalin, thanks to the influence of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko ( Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences ), Mendelian genetics was officially rejected in favour of Lysenkoism, which was derived from the Lamarkian beliefs of horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin.

Though Lysenko remained at his post in the Institute of Genetics until 1965, his influence on Soviet agricultural practice had declined by the 1950s.

In 1908, the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama in Kyiv began offering classes in bandura playing, instructed by kobzar Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko.

* February 4-Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union and Lysenkoist theories subjected to criticism.

Trofim Lysenko however caused a backlash of what is now called Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union when he emphasised Lamarckian ideas on the inheritance of acquired traits.

They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations .” Following the Russian Revolution, environmental scientists such as revolutionary Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Proletkul't organisation made efforts to incorporate environmentalism into Bolshevism, and " integrate production with natural laws and limits " in the first decade of Soviet rule, before Joseph Stalin attacked ecologists and the science of ecology, purged environmentalists and promoted the pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko.

Polanyi noted what happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of Trofim Lysenko gained the backing of the State.

* 1842 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( d. 1912 )

* October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( b. 1842 )

** Soviet scientists condemn Trofim Lysenko for pseudoscience.

* September 29 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist ( d. 1976 )

* March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( d. 1912 )

Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adapted them to a powerful political-scientific movement termed Lysenkoism.

By treating wheat seeds with moisture as well as cold, Lysenko induced them to bear a crop when planted in spring.

Later, however, Lysenko falsely claimed that a vernalized state could be inherited-i. e., that the offspring of a vernalized plant would behave as if they themselves had also been vernalized and would not require vernalization in order to flower quickly.

Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935.

Few of the successes attributed to Lysenko could be duplicated.

By the late 1920s, the Soviet political bosses had given their support to Lysenko.

Lysenko in particular impressed political officials further with his success in motivating peasants to return to farming.

Lysenko emerged during this period inaugurating radically new agricultural methods, and also promising that the new methods provided wider opportunities for year-round work in agriculture.

Lysenko proved himself very useful to the Soviet leadership by reengaging peasants to return to work, helping to secure from them a personal stake in the overall success of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.