By Bjorn M. Felder, Paul J. Weindling
The background of eugenics within the Baltic States is essentially unknown. The booklet compares for the 1st time the eugenic tasks of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the similar disciplines of racial anthropology and psychiatry, and situates them in the wider eu context. robust ethno-nationalism outlined the kingdom as a organic team, which used to be fostered via authoritarian regimes verified in Lithuania in 1926, and in Estonia and Latvia in 1934. The eugenics tasks have been designed to set up a state in organic phrases. Their goals have been to render the state ethnically, genetically and racially homogeneous. the most schedule used to be a non-democratic nation that outlined its inhabitants in organic phrases. Eugenic guidelines have been to regenerate the country and to reconstruct it as a "pure" and "original" race, Such schemes for nationwide regeneration contained robust components of secular faith.
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Eugenics was well perceived by the authoritarian political system in Estonia – the latter, besides attempting to biologise the national concept through the term of national entity, was aiming towards a corporate system of statebuilding, and fostered applied eugenics. 1. Introduction The ideology of eugenics has been more widespread than its application. The latter is mostly connected to eugenic legislation, notably the so-called sterilisation laws. 1 Lesser known are the cases of Latvia and Estonia, both of which introduced legislation in the second half of 1930s that permitted eugenic sterilisations and abortions.
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