Alexander Serebrovsky (1892-1948)
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A Soviet scientist proposed breeding better citizens by state-run artificial insemination as the 'socialist' answer to eugenics.
Who they are
Alexander Serebrovsky, a Marxist geneticist active in the 1920s-40s.
What they do
The engine treats him as the ideological basis of the Soviet eugenics effort.
How it works
His 1929 work proposed a mass state 'positive eugenics' program using artificial insemination from selected men, pitched as the socialist alternative to capitalist 'negative' eugenics.
Why it matters
He supplied the intellectual foundation for a state-run breeding program, showing eugenics thinking crossed political systems.
The engine's record — word for word
Marxist geneticist; 1929 'Anthropogenetics and Eugenics in a Socialist Society' proposed a mass state positive-eugenics program using artificial insemination from selected men, framed as the socialist alternative to capitalist negative eugenics. Ideological basis of the Soviet eugenics apparatus. [TIER: PEER-REVIEW-HISTORY]
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