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INDEX
Abakumov, Viktor, 132, 350n27
Academy of Sciences, 86, 131
Agol, Israel, 50, 79–80, 84–85, 164–165
agriculture: grafting and, 167, 169, 198; the Soviet Union and, 80–82, 160–163, 170, 188, 198–199; vernalization and, 81–82, 123, 161–164, 168, 170, 185–186, 201
air-raid shelters. See ARP (air-raid precautions)
Alexander, Bill, 112
Allason, Rupert, 104
All Russian Physiological Congress, 134
animal revival, 133–142
Antic Hay (Huxley), 22
Anti-Dühring (Engels), 61
anti-Soviet Tactical Center, 77
Arndt, H.W., 112
ARP (air-raid precautions), 89–91, 119
A.R.P. (Haldane), 89
Attlee, Clement, 111, 115
autojektor, 133, 135–116, 136, 137–139. See also Bryukhonenko, Sergey
Bach, Aleksei Nikolaevich, 35–36, 86, 122, 129–130
Bach, Lydia, 122
Baltic States, 92
Barbarians at the Gate (Woolf), 95
BARChmer, 105
BARON, 105, 109–110, 156. See also VENONA; X Group
Bateman, Angus, 173–174, 181, 183, 189
Bateson, William, 17, 34
Battle of Aubers Ridge, 18
Battle of Festubert, 18
Battle of Teruel, 58
BBC, 4–5, 28, 44–45, 180, 183, 198, 232, 347n2
Beliaev, Aleksandr, 141
Bell, Clive, 22
Berg, Lev, 86
Berg, Raissa L’vovna, 176, 355n46
Beria, Lavrenti, 127–128, 131, 350n27
Bernal, John Desmond, 29, 105, 185, 187, 189, 193, 356n83
Bethune, Norman, 48–50, 56
biological heredity, 1
“Biological Possibilities for the Human Species in the Next Ten Thousand Years” (Haldane), 214
Biometrika, 143–144, 146
Birstein, Vadim, 127
Black Watch, 18–19, 249–253, 257–258
Blunt, Anthony, 27, 104
Bolsheviks, 34, 37–38, 88, 122, 234
Bondarenko, Aleksandr, 86
Bonner, John Tyler, 224–225
Brecht, Bertolt, 151
Brezhnev, Leonid, 88, 199
Britain, 89–90, 150, 153, 236. See also United Kingdom
British Medical Journal, The, 139
British Roumanian Friendship Association, 153
British Soviet Society, 153
Brown, Andrew, 105
Bryukhonenko, Sergey, 133–142
Burdon, Richard (great grandfather), 10
Burdon-Sanderson, John Scott (great uncle), 10
Burdon-Sanderson, Mary Elizabeth (grandmother), 9
Burgess, Guy, 104
Burghes, Betty, 28
Burghes, Charlotte (first wife). See Haldane, Charlotte (first wife)
Burghes, John McLeod, 26–27
Burghes, Ronnie (stepson), 27, 47
Burks, Barbara, 205
Burns, Emile, 69, 148, 180
Caballero, Francisco Largo, 53, 58
Cairncross, John, 104
calculus, 65–67, 69–70
Callinicus (Haldane), 47
Cambridge, 29, 40–41, 43. See also Trinity College
Cambridge Five, 104
Campbell, Johnny, 180, 187, 190–191
capitalism, 71–74, 94
Carlson, Elof Axel, 239
Carlyle, A. J., 13
Case, Martin, 27, 43, 113
Case, Ralph, 43
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis, 65, 67
Causes of Evolution (Haldane), 42, 145
Central Bombing and Stokes Howitzer School, 20
Chain, Ernst Boris, 44, 308
Chambers, Whittaker, 233
Cheka. See Soviet Security Police
chemical weapons, 18, 47–48
Chesterton, G. K., 204
Chetverikov, Servei, 79
child mortality, 143
chromosomes, 17
Churchill, Winston, 236
CIA, 103
Clark, Ronald, 5, 344n42
Clarke, William Carey, 223–24
class, 36–37, 70, 75, 77, 79, 175, 234, 244.See also eugenics
Cockburn, Claud, 50
code cracking. See cryptanalysis
Cold War, 148, 151
Cole, G. D. H., 13–14
communism: Haldane and, 5–6, 8, 29, 60, 74, 206, 227, 238–239, 244–245; Muller and, 80, 207; VENONA and, 104. See also Communist Party; Soviet Union
Communist Party: ARP and, 91–92; Charlotte and, 57, 118, 122–123; disillusionment with, 233–235, 237–238; genetics and, 77; the Gulag and, 237; Haldane and, 6, 26, 99, 153, 159, 238–240; Haldane on, 75, 151; Levit and, 35, 79; Lysenkoism and, 176; Marxism and, 88; Montagu and, 24; Nazi-Soviet Pact and, 93; Nin and, 58; propaganda and, 237; Second World War and, 97; Smith and, 235; Stalin and, 70; Stern and, 130; Woolf and, 29; X Group and, 120
Communist Party of Great Britain. See CPGB (Communist Party of Great Britain)
Congress of Genetics, 83–84
Copeman, Fred, 51–52, 60–61
Cornforth, Kitty, 153
Cornforth, Maurice, 183–184
CORPORATION. See CPGB (Communist Party of Great Britain)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 229–230
Cowles, Virginia, 48, 53
CPGB (Communist Party of Great Britain), ix; Darlington and, 173; Dutt and, 40; Haldane and, 61, 148, 190–195; headquarters of, 1; Kahle and, 111, 114; Lysenko and, 181–185, 188–189, 331–337; Nazi-Soviet Pact and, 93; purpose of, 8; Reid and, 57; the Spanish Civil War and, 46; X Group and, 101, 107. See also Communist Party; Daily Worker
Crome Yellow (Huxley), 22
cryptanalysis, 102–104, 109
Daedalus (Haldane), 22, 203
“Daedalus, or Science and the Future” (Haldane), 26
Daily Express, 26
Daily Herald, 45
Daily Sketch, 121
Daily Worker, 187; China and, 60; Haldane and, 5, 51, 69–70, 95, 97, 108, 148, 190, 195, 211; Kahle and, 114; People’s Convention and, 98; Spanish Civil War and, 48, 50, 56–57; Stalin and, 192. See also CPGB (Communist Party of Great Britain); Pollitt, Harry
Darbishire, A. D., 17
Darlington, Cyril, 43–44, 124, 169, 173–714, 177–179, 197, 212–213
Darwin, Charles, 5, 42
Davies, John Langdon, 186
Dawkins, Richard, 5, 219
D-Day, 113
Dependents Aid Committee Fund, 60
“Dialectical Account of Evolution, A” (Haldane), 48, 61
dialectical materialism, 62–65
Dialectics of Nature, The (Engels), 62, 66–68
Dobb, Maurice, 29, 40
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 164, 171
Driberg, Tom, 111
Dronamraju, K. R., 239
Dubinin, N. P., 179, 186
Duebener, Maria Caroline, 54
Duff, Patrick, 112
Dunn, L. C., 170
Duranty, Walter, 38
Dutt, Clemens Palme, 48, 342n3
Dutt, Rajani Palme, 40, 93, 342n3
Efroimson, Vladimir Pavlovich, 165–166
Eisenstein, Sergei, 25
Eisler, Paul, 352n31
Elkan, Vera Ines Morley, 49–50
embassy communications, 102–104, 109. See also one-time pad; VENONA
Engels, Friedrich, 61–62, 65–67
Engels Society, 180, 184
Eton, 11–12, 246–249
eugenics: Darlington and
, 212–213; Galton and, 213–214; Haldane and, 203–206, 209, 211–215; Muller and, 207–209, 211; Soviet Union and, 77–79, 207, 346n32. See also genetics
evolutionary biology, 62–64
Evolution of Man and Society (Darlington), 44
Experiments in Bringing the Dead to Life, 133
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, 133–142, 134, 136–137
Facts of Life, The (Darlington), 197, 212
Farnham Left Book Club, 60
fascism, 96
Fillipovsky, Grigori, 126
Finland, 96, 102–103
First Circle, The (Solzhenitsyn), 152
First World War, 17–20
Fisher, R. A., 42–43, 63, 80, 145, 177–179, 208–209, 213
Florey, Howard Walter, 44, 308
Foote, Alexander Allan, 51
Forster, E. M., 238
Frisch, Karl von, 221
Fuchs, Klaus, 103, 112, 114, 348n8
Fyfe, James, 189
Galton, Francis, 143, 203, 213–214
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), ix, 104, 106
Gellhorn, Martha, 53
general intelligence, 205. See also eugenics
genes, 17, 203. See also eugenics; genetics
Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (Fisher), 80
genetics: Communist Party and, 77; CPGB and, 181–183; Haldane and, 17, 42–43; Marxism and, 87–88; newts and, 196; plant, 80–83, 124, 160–163, 167–170, 178; Soviet Union and, 50, 159–160, 166, 171, 197–198; study of, 200. See also eugenics; vernalization
Genetics of Genius, The (Efroimson), 166
Germany, 92–93, 108–110, 114–115, 126, 131, 150
Glushchenko, Ivan Yevdokimovich, 187–188, 355n54
Gödel, Kurt, 67
“GoldMakers, The” (Haldane), 41
Gollan, John, 189
Gollancz, Victor, 14, 95–96, 233
Goodrich, Edward Stephen, 12, 17
Gordon, W. W., 132
Gorky, Maxim, 37, 78, 80, 236
Gossett, W. S., 145
Govorov, Leonid Ipatevich, 129
GPU. See Soviet Security Police
grafting, 167, 169, 198. See also agriculture; Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Graham, Loren, 353n5, 357n9
Great Depression, 31
“Great Soviet Biologist, A” (Haldane), 159–160
Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 79–80, 209, 238, 351n17
Greenhalgh, Walter, 56
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