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Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

Edgar, Adrienne

Hardcover

Central Asian HistoryGeneral SociologyRussian History

ISBN10: 150176294X
ISBN13: 9781501762949
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2022
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Co-winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society's prize for best book in History and the Humanities in 2022 and 2023, and winner of the The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central Asia. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a single Soviet people. Yet the official Soviet view of ethnic nationality became increasingly primordial and even racialized in the USSR's final decades. In this context, Adrienne Edgar argues, mixed families and individuals found it impossible to transcend ethnicity, fully embrace their complex identities, and become simply Soviet.

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