Russian eugenics in transnational and transhistorical perspective: from comparison to translation

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Notes

1 Mark B. Adams (ed.), The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

2 Mark B. Adams, ‘Eugenics in Russia, 1900–1940’, The Wellborn Science, 153–216.

3 Nikolai Krementsov, ‘From “Beastly Philosophy” to Medical Genetics: Eugenics in Russia and the Soviet Union’, Annals of Science, 68(1) (2011), 61–92.

4 Nikolai Krementsov, ‘The Strength of a Loosely Defined Movement: Eugenics and Medicine in Imperial Russia’, Medical History, 59(1) (2015), 6–31.

5 The original title is ‘Usovershenstvovanie i vyrozhdenie chelovecheskogo roda’.

6 See especially Laurie Manchester, Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008).

7 Krementsov has admirably described this process in his early work Stalinist Science (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), which focuses on the case of genetics and thus usefully links up with the study reviewed here.

8 Mark B. Adams, ‘Towards a Comparative History of Eugenics’, The Wellborn Science, 215–31.