In the tense years of WWII and the early Cold War, American and Soviet women took up a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other as friends rather than enemies. Previously unexamined, these letters movingly demonstrate the power of the personal, as the pen pals engaged in a “diplomacy of the heart” that led them to question why their countries were so divided. The correspondence also inspired them individually to reexamine their own societies and lives through a critical lens.
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