Amplifying the Past

Episode 3 - Alexis Peri on Soviet and American Women's Friendship


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Our guest today is the historian Alexis Peri, who tells a radically new story about the Cold War, one in which American women write letters to Soviet women - who respond in kind. This correspondence, which she describes as copious, warm, and often personal, reveals experiences of joy, of loss, of small satisfactions, and deep grief.

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Amplifying the PastBy History Department, Boston University