Anti-Darwinism in Russia in the Nineteenth Century

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James Allen Rogers, Russian Opposition to Darwinism in the Nineteenth Century, Isis
Vol. 65, No. 4 (Dec., 1974), pp. 487-505
http://www.jstor.org/stable/229337

Chernyshevsky, Danilevsky, Strakhov against Darwin.

“It is ironic that classical education in the form in which the Minister of Public Education reinstituted it was clearly reactionary in character while in Western Europe the study of classics has supported a humanist tradition.”

James Allen Rogers, The Russian Populists’ Response to Darwin, Slavic Review
Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1963), pp. 456-468
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2492492

See also

James Allen Rogers, The Reception of Darwin’s Origin of Species by Russian Scientists
Isis, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Dec., 1973), pp. 484-503

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