Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2018-11-14
Books mentioned on Part Two: The Russian Scientist Who Helped Kill 30 Million People
In Part Two, Robert is joined again by comedian Max Silvestri to continue discussing Trofim Lysenko, the Russian scientist responsible for starving 30 million people. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans discussed Hungry Ghosts by Jasper Becker, Creating Miracles by Carolyn Godschild Miller, and The Lysenko Affair by David Joravsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts by Jasper Becker is a harrowing historical account of the man-made famines that devastated China under Mao Zedong.
Discussed“So uh as you will remember from part one, one of my sources for these episodes was the wonderful book Hungry Ghosts written by Jasper Becker.”
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Creating Miracles
Discussed“One popular propaganda book from this period was called they are creating miracles. It told it told stories about children in an elementary school who had quote developed 10 more new crops on its experimental plot.”
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The Lysenko Affair
Discussed“I'm going to quote from a book called The Lenko Affair here. He had never troubled himself to be precise and he insisted that precise data were not essential. Shrillly he called attention to biological theory to the progressive biological theory”
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