Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer bring together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia.
Adrienne Edgar is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Benjamin Frommer is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University. He is the author of National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia.
List of Figures
Introduction by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer
I. Central and Southeastern Europe
1. Eric Garcia McKinley, “Boundary Crossings and the Evolution of German Identity: Protestant-Catholic and Jewish-non-Jewish Intermarriage, 1875-1935”
2. Benjamin Frommer, “Privileged Victims: Intermarriage between Jews, Czechs and Germans in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia”
3. Fedja Buri¿, “Sporadically Mixed: Lowering Socialist Expectations and Politicizing Mixed Marriage in 1960s Yugoslavia”
4. Keziah Conrad, “Being Mixed and Showing It: Ethical Dilemmas of Self-Presentation in Bosnia”
II. The Soviet Union and Its Successors
5. Uku Lember, “Memory and Asymmetry in Russian-Estonian Intermarriages in Estonia during Late Socialism”
6. Sophie Roche, “Maintaining, Dissolving and Remaking Group Boundaries through Marriage: The case of Khujand in the Ferghana Valley”
7. Aksana Ismailbekova, “The Dynamics of Interethnic Marriage in the Aftermath of the Osh Conflict, Fergana Valley”
8. Milena Oganesyan, “Of Intermarriage, ‘Hats,’ and Identity in Georgia”
III. Transnational Marriages
9. Lena Radauer, “Wedding the ‘Enemy’: Unions between Russian Women and ‘German’ Prisoners of the First World War”
10. Maren Röger, “Choices Made in Times of Rising Nationalism and National Socialism: Intermarriage between Germans and Eastern Europeans, 1871-1945”
11. Rósa Magnúsdóttir, “Divided Spouses: Soviet-American Intermarriage and Human Rights Activism during the Cold War”
Contributors