IT’S been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the communist nation’s horror history of science lives on. We unearth five of the most terrifying experiments conducted under ...

Is it possible to write a history of the Soviet Union without also writing a biography of Josef Stalin? Karl Schlögel devotes about 100 pages to Stalin and to Stalinism and its aftermath, but these ...

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. Deep in the ...

Throughout its brief but interesting life, the Progvev-T encountered numerous problems that ultimately doomed this gonzo idea to obscurity. The Cold War was a time of extreme experiments when it came ...

For 14 months U.S. space and intelligence experts have intensively analyzed a secret series of Soviet orbital experiments, suspecting from the start that Moscow was building a new space weapon. Last ...

Communist propaganda in the former Soviet Union was based on the Marxist–Leninist ideology to advocate for the Communist Party agenda. This propaganda was one of many methods and tactics the Soviet ...