Soviet science has been in the public eye for the last two decades. The dramatic confrontation of Marxist theory and genetics epitomized the dangers of Communism as a thought-controlling system. The ...

In a house that eerily recalls the aesthetic of Her—modernist on the outside, studiedly rustic and artisanal on the inside—a young woman agonizes over whether she is human or a machine. She is a clone ...

When the first Soviet Sputnik took to space two years ago, the U.S. estimate of Soviet science soared out of sight. But the initial shock has passed, and since then, platoons of U.S. scientists have ...

The scientist-darling of Communist theologians is Soviet Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko’s basic idea seems to be that living forms (like nations) need to be shaken up by a kind of ...

It is all too easy to focus on the deficiencies of Soviet science. Ask Soviet scientists themselves and they will readily recite a laundry list of their research system's failings. Perhaps the ...

During the Stalin years, there were tight restrictions on science fiction in the Soviet Union. Writers were pressured and boxed in, urged to stick to themes of adventure, space travel and the glowing ...

Today's enormous shadow libraries - Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and the rest - trace back to Soviet samizdat, the underground ...

Russia has never had a great image in the United States. Long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, the biggest country in the world was notorious in the public consciousness for controlling the ...

For almost 40 years—from the 1920s to the mid-1960s—Trofim Lysenko suppressed the study of genetics in the Soviet Union in favor of his own belief that traits acquired during a plant’s lifetime could ...