Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.

Early rise
Lysenko the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko was born to a peasant family in Karlivka Poltava Oblast Ukraine and attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute. Many had abandoned the farms altogether; many more waged resistance to collectivization by poor work quality and pilfering. By the late 1920s the Soviet political bosses had given their support to Lysenko.

September 17] 1898 – November 20 1976) was a Soviet biologist and agronmist of Ukrainian origin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin and adapted them to a pseudoscientific movement termed Lysenkoism. Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко Ukrainian: Трохим Денисович Лисенко Trochym Denysovyč Lysenko) (September 29 [O.