CREECA Lecture Series
“Between the Ethnos and the Soviet People: Mixed Marriages and Families in Soviet Central Asia"
Event Details
Date
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Time
4 p.m.
Location
206 Ingraham Hall
Description
Adrienne Edgar, associate professor of history, University of California-Santa Barbara.
Soviet authorities consistently celebrated mixed marriages as proof of the unbreakable "friendship of nations" and as a sign of the imminent emergence of a Soviet people. Using archival and published materials as well as oral history testimony from three post-Soviet states, Edgar examines both the official Soviet approach to ethnic mixing and the subjective experiences of mixed individuals and families.
Soviet authorities consistently celebrated mixed marriages as proof of the unbreakable "friendship of nations" and as a sign of the imminent emergence of a Soviet people. Using archival and published materials as well as oral history testimony from three post-Soviet states, Edgar examines both the official Soviet approach to ethnic mixing and the subjective experiences of mixed individuals and families.
Cost
Free
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