Alexis Peri is an

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historian. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and currently teaches Russian and Soviet history at Boston University. Her book ''The War Within'' ( Harvard University Press, 2017), based on diaries from the

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, won the 2018

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and the 2018

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. It also received an Honorable Mention for the 2018

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. Her next major project is tentatively titled ''Dear Unknown Friend: Soviet and American Women Discover the Power of the Personal'' and explores the phenomenon of

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between Soviet and American women during the Second World War and the

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Boston University

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