Scientific ethos: academician V. S. Nemchinov protects genetics (based on the materials of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union session in 1948)

The article deals with the problem of the party dictatorship concerning biology and particularly the situation in the scientific environment during the preparation and work of the Lenin АН-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union session in August of 1948. The author analyzes the reasons of confrontation between V. S. Nemchinov and T. D. Lysenko and the consequences of the political interference in Biology.