In this post, we will see the book I. V. Michurin The Great Remaker Of Nature by A. N. Bakharev.

About the book

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin will be known to history as the founder of a new, revolutionary teaching of the transformation of living nature. His theory helps to create high-yielding-, qualitatively superior forms of agricultural plants and productive breeds of domestic animals.

From his youth Michurin was dominated by the lofty idea of producing high-yielding and high-quality varieties of agricultural plants to replace the old, low-yielding, poor varieties and thus to raise the standard of living of the working people.

The book was translated from Russian (translator’s name not given) and was designed by A.A. Medvedev was published in  by Publishers.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION 5

1. THE LIFE AND WORK OF I. V. MICHURIN 12

CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 12
IN THE FETTERS OF TSARISM 15
THE SOVIET PERIOD 25
A NEW TYPE OF SCIENTIST 32
STYLE OF WORK 57
A FIGHTER FOR THE FLORESCENCE OF SOVIET GARDENING 65
THE LAST DAYS r75

2. ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE GENERAL BIOLOGICAL TEACHING OF I. V. MICHURIN 77

MICHURIN’S VIEWS ON EVOLUTION 77
THE TEACHING ON UNITY BETWEEN TIE ORGANISM AND ITS ENVIRONMENT 82
TUE TEACHING ON HYBRIDIZATION 90
METHOD OF SELECTING PARENTAL FORMS FOR CROSSING 94
INTRASPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION 99
DISTANT (INTERSPECIFIC AND INTERGENERIC) HYBRIDIZATION 101
THE “POSREDNIK” (INTERMEDIARY) METHOD 108
THE METHOD OF “PRELIMINARY VEGETATIVE APPROXIMATION” 104
THE USE OF MIXED POLLEN 107
DIRECTED ALTERATION OF THE NATURE OF VECETABLE ORGANISMS 109
MICHURIN RULES OF CHOICE (SELECTION) 117
VEGETATIVE HYBRIDIZATION (THE MENTOR DOCTRINE) 123

3. MICHURIN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNISM 137