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I am grateful to Paul Bazin, Sondra Giles, and Joseph Doherty of the Reference Department at the Phillips Memorial Library, Providence College, for invaluable help in locating sources. Special thanks go to Stanley Radosh, Slavic Bibliographer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for locating publication records of the Fourth All-Union Congress of Zoologists, Anatomists, and Histologists held at Kiev in 1930. To my colleague Professor Thomas E. Lux, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, and to Professor Alfred B. Hudson, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his wife, Judy Hudson, most sincere thanks for reading the draft version of this paper. Needless to say, they are in no way responsible for my opinions, errors of fact or of judgement.

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Black, L.T. The concept of race in Soviet anthropology. Studies in Soviet Thought 17, 1–27 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01045694

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