Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But ...

Lenin’s corpse is not happy. His organs need to be removed, his skin is getting all splotchy, and Stalin needs him to show his face to keep Russians inspired. But Lenin, who was an atheist and a ...

Science might be a high stakes game, but a project's success or failure rarely determines whether the researchers undertaking it will live or die. There are, of course, some exceptions to this; say, ...

Vietnam's communist government has formed a special council to assess the state of its most sacred icon: the corpse -- first embalmed by Soviet chemists and other forensic specialists a half-century ...

The greatest embalming job of the 20th Century was the mummification of V. I. Lenin. Until last week, the technique had always remained a dark secret of Soviet science. Finally, Dr. Herwig Hamperl, ...

Who would have thought that a play titled "Lenin's Embalmers" would be so lively? Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen's take on history is a remarkably frisky one as he tells the tale of Boris Zbarsky ...