“The Russians consist chiefly of primitive racial breeds, some of whom (especially the Tartars and other Asiatic nomads) are distinctly “savage” tribes, who always display an instinctive hostility to civilization,” is not it a provocative and maximally intolerant statement? Today the works of this American scientist would hardly be published. It seems so only at first glance. The famous American anthropologist, one of the ardent activists of the Ku Klux Klan, the founder of the most controversial science of the early twentieth century - eugenics L. Stoddard talks about his vision of the future and the need for human selection. Very radical statements were subsequently reflected in such sciences as sociology and biopolitics.