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100	1		_aKrementsov, Nikolai, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWith and without Galton _h[electronic resource] : _bVasilii Florinskii and the fate of eugenics in Russia / _cNikolai Krementsov.
264		1	_bOpen Book Publishers,
300			_a1 online resource (xxvi, 668 pages) : _b49 illustrations.
500			_aAvailable through Open Book Publishers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references in notes (pages 495-653) and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Names, Transliterations, and Translations -- Acknowledgments -- The Faces of Eugenics: Local Mirrors and Global Reflections -- I. "HYGIENIC" AND "RATIONAL" MARRIAGE. 1. The Author: Vasilii Florinskii ; 2. The Publisher: Grigorii Blagosvetlov ; 3. The Book: Darwinism and Social Hygiene ; 4. The Hereafter: Words and Deeds -- II. "BOURGEOIS" AND "PROLETARIAN" EUGENICS. 5. Rebirth: Eugenics and Marxism ; 6. Resonance: Euphenics, Medical Genetics, and Rassenhygiene ; 7. Afterlife: Medical Genetics and "Racial" Eugenics ; 8. Science of the Future: With and Without Galton -- Apologia: The Historian's Craft -- Notes -- Index.
506			_aOpen access resource providing free access.
520			_a"In 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become 'eugenics.' The same year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded, Florinskii's book would go on to have a remarkable afterlife in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia. In this lucid and insightful work, Nikolai Krementsov argues that the concept of eugenics brings together ideas, values, practices, and fears energised by a focus on the future. It has proven so seductive to different groups over time because it provides a way to grapple with fundamental existential questions of human nature and destiny. With and Without Galton develops this argument by tracing the life-story of Florinskii's monograph from its uncelebrated arrival amid the Russian empire's Great Reforms, to its reissue after the Bolshevik Revolution, its decline under Stalinism, and its subsequent resurgence: first, as a founding document of medical genetics, and most recently, as a manifesto for nationalists and racial purists. Krementsov's meticulously researched 'biography of a book' sheds light not only on the peculiar fate of eugenics in Russia, but also on its convoluted transnational history, elucidating the field's protean nature and its continuing and contested appeal to diverse audiences, multiple local trajectories, and global trends. It is required reading for historians of eugenics, science, medicine, education, literature, and Russia, and it will also appeal to the general reader looking for a deeper understanding of this challenging subject."--Publisher's website.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
540			_aThe text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
600	1	0	_aFlorinskīĭ, V. M. _q(Vasilīĭ Markovich), _d1833-1899 _xInfluence.
600	1	0	_aFlorinskīĭ, V. M. _q(Vasilīĭ Markovich), _d1833-1899.
600	1	0	_aGalton, Francis, _cSir, _d1822-1911 _xInfluence.
600	1	0	_aGalton, Francis, _cSir, _d1822-1911.
650		0	_aEugenics _zRussia _xHistory.
650		0	_aEugenics _zSoviet Union _xHistory _y20th century.
710	2		_aOpen Book Publishers, _epublisher.
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