The Soviet Psychotronics Research Reports

Record summary

During the 1960s, Soviet and Eastern European researchers published or circulated reports on telepathy, hypnosis, psychokinesis, bioinformation, and psychotronics. Names associated with the literature include Leonid Vasiliev, V. N. Pushkin, and later investigators working with subjects such as Nina Kulagina. This material matters for cross-cultural comparison because it developed under different ideological and institutional conditions than American parapsychology. The corpus is uneven, with translation problems, restricted access, variable controls, and substantial retrospective exaggeration.