Famous writer, author of fourteen published books Mark Popovsky in 1977 under the threat of arrest was forced to emigrate from the USSR. The book offered to readers is a true and bitter study of one of the most dramatic pages in the history of Russian science, which survived the onset of Lysenkoism on genetics, the murder of many of its best representatives, - for the first time saw the light in the West. Today, in the conditions of the recovery of Soviet society, not only the name of Mark Popovsky, but also his books return to their homeland. This edition is the first in the USSR after a long break. For a wide range of readers.