Further Reading
These books and papers were used in the creation of Cultivating Silence, or are relevant to the material it presents. All of them, plus many more both about and written by Nikolai Vavilov, are available through their doi.org URLs or through Cornell University Library. Hundreds more works on genetics-related topics dating back centuries are freely available in digital form from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Butler, Declan. “How US sanctions are crippling science in Iran.” Nature.
Danner, Chas. “EPA Scrubs Climate-Change Sections
From Website”. New York Magazine. April 29,2017
Driscoll, Don A. et al. “Consequences of information suppression in ecological andconservation sciences.” Conservation Letters. doi.org/10.1111/conl.12757
Esmaili, Hossein and Ataie-Ashtiani, Behzad. “The Autonomy of Science as a Civilian Casualty of Economic Warfare: Inadvertent Censorship of Science Resulting from Unilateral Economic Sanctions.” Science and Engineering Ethics.
Ings, Simon. Stalin and the Scientists: a History of Triumph and Tragedy. London: Faber & Faber, 2016.
Kass, L.B., E.H. Coe, M.N. Cook, M.E. Smith, J.L. Singer (Eds.) 2019. Founding of the Maize Genetics Cooperation News Letter at Cornell University: A 90th Anniversary Tribute. (Foreword by E.S. Buckler) [e-book] Internet-First University Press, Ithaca, New York, URI: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/66550
Kass, L.B. 2013ff. Perspectives on Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock’s publications (1926-1984): A Companion Volume. The Internet-First University Press. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34897 [Online 30 Dec. 2013]; increments 2016, 2020
Murphy, R.P. & L. B. Kass. 2011. Evolution of Plant Breeding at Cornell University: A Centennial History, 1907-2006. Rev. ed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/23087 (online 27 June 2011)
Popovskiĭ, Mark, Andreĭ Sakharov, William B Provine, and Carl Sagan.The Vavilov Affair. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books,
1984.
Pringle, Peter. The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: the Story of Stalin's persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.