Adrienne Edgar is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Tribal Nation.

• Introduction: Nationality, Race, and Mixed Marriage in the Soviet Union1. Intermarriage and Soviet Social Science2. Falling in Love across Ethnic Lines3. Scenes from Happy (and Not So Happy) Mixed Marriages4. Intermarriage and the "Eastern Woman"5. Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging6. Naming Mixed Children7. Mixed Families and the Russian Language8. Intermarriage after the Soviet CollapseConclusion: Remembering Soviet Internationalism

Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is an outstanding study of the evolution of intermarriage practices in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan across the Soviet era and beyond.(New Books Network) Edgar's research is in many ways original and innovative, and it thus opens a wide new field of research in Soviet studies that others might want to expand.It is rare to write this in a review, but I am thrilled by reading Adrienne Edgar's book on interethnic marriage.(H/Soz/Kult) Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples explores an intriguing paradox: how and why did the Soviet multinational state espouse the concept of a singular, equal Soviet people, and yet simultaneously identify and promote ethnic and national identity categories?(Asian Affairs Journal) Edgar convincingly reconstructs how intermarriage in the Soviet Union benefitted from its particularities(Europe Asia Studies) It is rare to write this in a review, but I am thrilled by reading Adrienne Edgar's book on interethnic marriage(Florin) One of the book's strengths is that Edgar takes a multigenerational view(Asian Affairs) Edgar is more concerned with the messiness of lives lived than with theory, which is a great strength of the book(Keller) Edgar's portrayal of the experiences of race, racism, and logics and practices of rationalization in the late- Soviet period makes several important contributions.(Russian Review)

Adrienne Edgar is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Tribal Nation.

• Introduction: Nationality, Race, and Mixed Marriage in the Soviet Union1. Intermarriage and Soviet Social Science2. Falling in Love across Ethnic Lines3. Scenes from Happy (and Not So Happy) Mixed Marriages4. Intermarriage and the "Eastern Woman"5. Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging6. Naming Mixed Children7. Mixed Families and the Russian Language8. Intermarriage after the Soviet CollapseConclusion: Remembering Soviet Internationalism

Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is an outstanding study of the evolution of intermarriage practices in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan across the Soviet era and beyond.(New Books Network) Edgar's research is in many ways original and innovative, and it thus opens a wide new field of research in Soviet studies that others might want to expand.It is rare to write this in a review, but I am thrilled by reading Adrienne Edgar's book on interethnic marriage.(H/Soz/Kult) Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples explores an intriguing paradox: how and why did the Soviet multinational state espouse the concept of a singular, equal Soviet people, and yet simultaneously identify and promote ethnic and national identity categories?(Asian Affairs Journal) Edgar convincingly reconstructs how intermarriage in the Soviet Union benefitted from its particularities(Europe Asia Studies) It is rare to write this in a review, but I am thrilled by reading Adrienne Edgar's book on interethnic marriage(Florin) One of the book's strengths is that Edgar takes a multigenerational view(Asian Affairs) Edgar is more concerned with the messiness of lives lived than with theory, which is a great strength of the book(Keller) Edgar's portrayal of the experiences of race, racism, and logics and practices of rationalization in the late- Soviet period makes several important contributions.(Russian Review)

Adrienne Edgar is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Tribal Nation.

• Introduction: Nationality, Race, and Mixed Marriage in the Soviet Union1. Intermarriage and Soviet Social Science2. Falling in Love across Ethnic Lines3. Scenes from Happy (and Not So Happy) Mixed Marriages4. Intermarriage and the "Eastern Woman"5. Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging6. Naming Mixed Children7. Mixed Families and the Russian Language8. Intermarriage after the Soviet CollapseConclusion: Remembering Soviet Internationalism

Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is an outstanding study of the evolution of intermarriage practices in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan across the Soviet era and beyond.(New Books Network) Edgar's research is in many ways original and innovative, and it thus opens a wide new field of research in Soviet studies that others might want to expand.It is rare to write this in a review, but I am thrilled by reading Adrienne Edgar's book on interethnic marriage.(H/Soz/Kult) Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples explores an intriguing paradox: how and why did the Soviet multinational state espouse the concept of a singular, equal Soviet people, and yet simultaneously identify and promote ethnic and national identity categories?(Asian Affairs Journal) Edgar convincingly reconstructs how intermarriage in the Soviet Union benefitted from its particularities(Europe Asia Studies) It is rare to write this in a review, but I am thrilled by reading Adrienne Edgar's book on interethnic marriage(Florin) One of the book's strengths is that Edgar takes a multigenerational view(Asian Affairs) Edgar is more concerned with the messiness of lives lived than with theory, which is a great strength of the book(Keller) Edgar's portrayal of the experiences of race, racism, and logics and practices of rationalization in the late- Soviet period makes several important contributions.(Russian Review)