Crowds flock towards the “Sovetsky Raj” (Soviet Paradise) show at the Prague Exhibition Grounds on March 7, 1942. A Prague shop front promoting the exhibition.

Medicine In Soviet Russia, The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4012 (Nov. 27, 1937), pp. 324-325 ...

The 157 posters selected for the show offer a diary of the war -- from crushing Soviet losses, to the defence of Stalingrad, to the defeat of Germany in 1945.

This article examines how lobotomy came to be banned in the Soviet Union in 1950. The author finds that Soviet psychiatrists viewed lobotomy as a treatment of "last resort," and justified its use on ...