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| + | "[[Dmitry Belyayev (zoologist) |Dmitri Belyaev]] [was] a Soviet scientist who had been demoted in 1948 for his belief in [[Mendelian inheritance|Mendelian genetics]]. ([[Philosophy in the Soviet Union|Soviet morality]] required the belief that traits acquired during one’s lifetime could be passed on to one’s children. This is known as [[Lamarckism]]. Darwin believed it too, erroneously. Lamarckism was helpful to a dictatorship bent on producing a new breed of human being, [[New Soviet man|Soviet Man]]. [[Trofim Lysenko]] was the preferred biologist, rather than Mendel." --''[[The Righteous Mind]]'' (2012) by Jonathan Haidt | ||
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| + | The '''New Soviet man''' or '''New Soviet person''', as postulated by the ideologists of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], was an [[archetype]] of a person with certain qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the [[Soviet Union]], irrespective of the country's cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single [[Soviet people]], Soviet nation. | ||
| - | '''''Heart of a Dog''''' , a novel by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]], is a [[Satire#Satire_vs_Teasing|biting satire]] of the [[New Soviet man]] written in 1925 at the height of the [[New Economic Policy|NEP]] period, when [[Communism]] appeared to be weakening in the [[Soviet Union]]. | + | ==See also== |
| - | It's generally interpreted as an allegory of the Communist revolution and "the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind." Its publication was initially prohibited in the [[Soviet Union]], but circulated in [[samizdat]] until it was officially released in the country in 1987. It is "one of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's most beloved stories" featuring a stray dog "named Sharik who takes human form," as a slovenly and [[narcissist]]ic incarnation of the [[New Soviet Man]]. | + | *[[Family in the Soviet Union]] |
| + | *''[[Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle]]'' | ||
| + | *[[New class]] | ||
| + | *[[New People]] | ||
| + | *[[Thought reform in the People's Republic of China]] | ||
| - | The novel has become a cultural phenomenon in Russia, known and discussed by people "from schoolchildren to politicians." | + | ;Non-Communist |
| + | *[[American dream]] | ||
| + | *[[Novus homo]] | ||
| + | *[[Transhumanism]] | ||
| + | *[[Übermensch]] | ||
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"Dmitri Belyaev [was] a Soviet scientist who had been demoted in 1948 for his belief in Mendelian genetics. (Soviet morality required the belief that traits acquired during one’s lifetime could be passed on to one’s children. This is known as Lamarckism. Darwin believed it too, erroneously. Lamarckism was helpful to a dictatorship bent on producing a new breed of human being, Soviet Man. Trofim Lysenko was the preferred biologist, rather than Mendel." --The Righteous Mind (2012) by Jonathan Haidt |
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The New Soviet man or New Soviet person, as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with certain qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single Soviet people, Soviet nation.
See also
- Family in the Soviet Union
- Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle
- New class
- New People
- Thought reform in the People's Republic of China
- Non-Communist
