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Koltsov

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
Trofim Lysenko measures wheat growth

5 'mad scientists' of post-Revolution Russia

18 October 2017

From trying to mate humans with chimps to the “discovery” that living cells can emerge from dead matter, Russian science went off the rails after the 1917 revolution

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