Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef Stalin. He was an advocate of the theory that characteristics acquired by ...

Trofim Lysenko rose from relative obscurity to dominate Soviet agricultural science under Joseph Stalin. Rejecting ...

In October 1992, in the waning days of the Cold War, one of the architects of the Soviet bioweapons program defected to the United States. Colonel Kanatzhan "Kanat" Alibekov, who has since changed his ...

Politics is once again threatening science in Russia, just as it did in Stalin's time. President Vladimir Putin's emphasis on nationalism and Russian pride is encouraging some politicians and a few ...

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 ...

1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko is born in Karlovka, Ukraine. As dictator Joseph Stalin's lapdog and top scientist, his influence will almost single-handedly retard the course of Soviet science, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Jim Holland Under Joseph Stalin, Nikolai Vavilov (above) was punished for promoting ...