Lourie S.B. Interethnic Marriages in the Context of Contemporary Russian National Script. Peterburgskaya sociologiya segodnya [Petersburg sociology today], 2018, Issue 10, pp. 122-148.

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the examination of interethnic marriage rates in contemporary Russia as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Its dynamics and characteristics, integrating as well as opposing the phenomenon of widespread interethnic marriages in USSR are studied and interpreted. The task of the article is to determine how nationally mixed marriages correlate with national script of contemporary Russia, do they fit in, and whether they are value approved and a phenomenon conditioned culturally. For this purpose, the statistics of interethnic marriage in Russia and its regions, survey data of public opinion and mythology existing around the phenomenon of contemporary interethnic marriage rates, expressed both in the media and clearly manifested in many scientific studies provoking distortion of the facts, are analyzed. On the basis of this, the social-culturological interpretation of the studied phenomenon is presented.