By Katrina Maloney,Patricia Maloney
Clara’s letters, gathered during this publication, inform of either the mundane and the extreme: what the YW employees ate for dinner; how the Bolshevik suppression of loose speech impacted americans’ skill to speak with these at domestic; shootings within the streets; bartering for kilos of sugar; talking with the Aristocracy, with intellectuals, and with staff; attending the opera; and sight-seeing at monasteries. jointly, Clara’s letters to her family—her “dearest ones at home”—tell a compelling tale of 1 American woman’s reports in innovative Russia.
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