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The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

18 October 2017

Russia's 1917 revolution put Nikolai Koltsov in a deadly predicament, pursuing world-leading genetics research with Lenin's secret police breathing down his neck

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The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

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