“[a] path-breaking collection … The historical research presented in the essays in Baltic Eugenics is a sound first step both in terms of their findings and their laying out the need for future work. “Slavic Review, Vol. 73, No. 4”an excellent source on the role of eugenics in the formation of science, medicine, and public policy in the three countries.” in: The Russian Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2014

• AcknowledgmentsBjörn M. Felder: Introduction: Eugenics, Sterilisation and the Racial State: The Baltic States and Russia and the Global Eugenics MovementPaul J. Weindling: Race, Eugenics and National Identity in the Eastern Baltic: From Racial Surveys to Racial StatesKen Kalling: The Application of Eugenics in Estonia 1918-1940Ken Kalling and Leiu Heapost: Racial Identity and Physical Anthropology in Estonia 1800-1945Björn M. Felder: “God forgives - but Nature never will” – Racial Identity, Racial Anthropology, and Eugenics in Latvia 1918-1940Vladimirs Kuznecovs: Latvian Psychiatry and Medical Legislation of the 1930s and the German Sterilisation LawIneta Lipša: “Over-Latvianization in Heaven” - Attitude towards Contraception and Abortion in Latvia 1918-1940Björn M. Felder and Arūnas Germanivičius: Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940Eugenics in the Baltic Sea RegionMaciej Górny: World War One and National Characterology in East-Central EuropeVsevolod Bashkuev: Soviet Eugenics for National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernisation of a Frontier Region 1923-1928Maija Runcis: Sterilisations in the Swedish Welfare State: A Gender Issue?Volker Roelcke: Eugenic Concerns, Scientific Practices: International Relations and National Adaptations in the Establishment of Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA, and Scandinavia 1910-1960Contributors

“[a] path-breaking collection … The historical research presented in the essays in Baltic Eugenics is a sound first step both in terms of their findings and their laying out the need for future work. “Slavic Review, Vol. 73, No. 4”an excellent source on the role of eugenics in the formation of science, medicine, and public policy in the three countries.” in: The Russian Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2014

• AcknowledgmentsBjörn M. Felder: Introduction: Eugenics, Sterilisation and the Racial State: The Baltic States and Russia and the Global Eugenics MovementPaul J. Weindling: Race, Eugenics and National Identity in the Eastern Baltic: From Racial Surveys to Racial StatesKen Kalling: The Application of Eugenics in Estonia 1918-1940Ken Kalling and Leiu Heapost: Racial Identity and Physical Anthropology in Estonia 1800-1945Björn M. Felder: “God forgives - but Nature never will” – Racial Identity, Racial Anthropology, and Eugenics in Latvia 1918-1940Vladimirs Kuznecovs: Latvian Psychiatry and Medical Legislation of the 1930s and the German Sterilisation LawIneta Lipša: “Over-Latvianization in Heaven” - Attitude towards Contraception and Abortion in Latvia 1918-1940Björn M. Felder and Arūnas Germanivičius: Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940Eugenics in the Baltic Sea RegionMaciej Górny: World War One and National Characterology in East-Central EuropeVsevolod Bashkuev: Soviet Eugenics for National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernisation of a Frontier Region 1923-1928Maija Runcis: Sterilisations in the Swedish Welfare State: A Gender Issue?Volker Roelcke: Eugenic Concerns, Scientific Practices: International Relations and National Adaptations in the Establishment of Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA, and Scandinavia 1910-1960Contributors

“[a] path-breaking collection … The historical research presented in the essays in Baltic Eugenics is a sound first step both in terms of their findings and their laying out the need for future work. “Slavic Review, Vol. 73, No. 4”an excellent source on the role of eugenics in the formation of science, medicine, and public policy in the three countries.” in: The Russian Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2014

• AcknowledgmentsBjörn M. Felder: Introduction: Eugenics, Sterilisation and the Racial State: The Baltic States and Russia and the Global Eugenics MovementPaul J. Weindling: Race, Eugenics and National Identity in the Eastern Baltic: From Racial Surveys to Racial StatesKen Kalling: The Application of Eugenics in Estonia 1918-1940Ken Kalling and Leiu Heapost: Racial Identity and Physical Anthropology in Estonia 1800-1945Björn M. Felder: “God forgives - but Nature never will” – Racial Identity, Racial Anthropology, and Eugenics in Latvia 1918-1940Vladimirs Kuznecovs: Latvian Psychiatry and Medical Legislation of the 1930s and the German Sterilisation LawIneta Lipša: “Over-Latvianization in Heaven” - Attitude towards Contraception and Abortion in Latvia 1918-1940Björn M. Felder and Arūnas Germanivičius: Eugenics against State and Church: Juozas Blažys (1890-1939), Eugenics, Abortion and Psychiatry in Interwar Lithuania 1918-1940Eugenics in the Baltic Sea RegionMaciej Górny: World War One and National Characterology in East-Central EuropeVsevolod Bashkuev: Soviet Eugenics for National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernisation of a Frontier Region 1923-1928Maija Runcis: Sterilisations in the Swedish Welfare State: A Gender Issue?Volker Roelcke: Eugenic Concerns, Scientific Practices: International Relations and National Adaptations in the Establishment of Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA, and Scandinavia 1910-1960Contributors