How Domestic Genetics Was Forged

The book by S.V. Shalimov “‘To Overcome the Gap’: Soviet Genetics in the 1960s – 1980s” is a historical review of revival of genetics that covers the period of its restoration genetics as a science, beginning from the mid-1960s.
The author has analyzed a vast amount of sources, which allowed him to examine in detail this difficult period in the history of Soviet science, focusing on the formation and development of the two main centers of genetics research in the country, the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics in Moscow and the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk. The key historical figures and socio-political situation of the time are considered.