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The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century  
By Peter Pringle
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Introduction
Prologue: Ukraine, August 6, 1940

1. Moscow, December 1905
2. The Petrovka and Katya
3. In Darwin's Library
4. Moscow, Summer 1916
5. On the Roof of the World, 1916
6. Revolution and Civil War
7. The Gardener of Kozlov
8. Lenochka
9. Petrograd: City of Ravens
10. Ingots of Platinum
11. Afghanistan, 1924
12. Abyssinia, 1926
13. The Barefoot Scientist
14. The Great Break
15. State Security File 006854
16. The Passionate Patriot
17. A Modest Compromise
18. The Red Professor
19. The Last Expedition
20. Thunder and Dragons
21. The Lysenko Offensive
22. The Showdown
23. The Terror
24. Into the Pyre
25. Comrade Philosophers
26. The Arrest
27. The Interrogation
28. Return to Saratov
29. "Oleg, Where Are You?"
Epilogue: Vavilov's Ghost 290

Main Events in the Life of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
Sources and Archives
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index