"Lysenkoism (Russian: \u041B\u044B\u0441\u0435\u0301\u043D\u043A\u043E\u0432\u0449\u0438\u043D\u0430), 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 Union's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964.Lysenkoism was built on Lamarckan heritability of acquired characteristics that Lysenko named \"Michurinism\"."@en . . .