Geopolitics and Eugenics in the Context of the Scientific Study of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the 1920s – early 1930s
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Bashkuev V.Y. Geopolitics and Eugenics in the Context of the Scientific Study of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the 1920s – early 1930s. Vlast’ (The Authority). 2015. Vol. 22. No. 5. P. 140-145.
Abstract
In October, 1925 the government of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR attempted to include the republic in the scope of activity of the Commission for the scientific study of Mongolia under the auspices of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the USSR. On the basis of archival sources from the funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia the author exposes a knot of geopolitical factors behind this attempt. Thus, in their striving to get into the scope of activities of an international commission for studying the country within the geopolitical interest zone of the USSR the leaders of Buryat-Mongolia attempted to inflate the status of their national autonomy in the eyes of central government and secure governmental funding for the solution of acute regional socio-economic problems. In the scientific agenda of Buryat-Mongolia included into the scope of activities of the Commission in late 1925 there was a definite prevalence of eugenic studies. Based on the example of the 1931 Buryat-Mongolian anthropological expedition and a number of earlier scientific and medical ventures the author seeks to explain the topicality of racial and eugenic studies in that period and provides a connection not only with internal social problems of Buryat-Mongolia, but also with the wider context of global eugenic theories.
Keywords:
Mongolia, Buryat-Mongolia, geopolitics, Lena-Baikal region, national autonomy, scientific study, productive forces, human potential, eugenics, racial research
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Bashkuev, V. Y. (2015). Geopolitics and Eugenics in the Context of the Scientific Study of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the 1920s – early 1930s. Vlast’ (The Authority), 22(5), 140-145. Retrieved from https://jour.fnisc.ru/index.php/vlast/article/view/2470
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