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Intermarriage and the friendship of peoples : ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia / Adrienne Edgar

Edgar, Adrienne Lynn [Verfasser]

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 284 pages).

Cornell scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-5017-6296-3 ; 978-1-50-176294-9

 

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'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'.