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# Julia Ioffe
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/ideas-festival/speakers/julia-ioffe/
- Published: 2026-03-16T19:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-15T02:41:05.000Z
- Author: Julia Ioffe
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One of America’s foremost voices on Russia-U.S. relations, covering national security, foreign relations, and domestic politics from Washington and Europe. National Book Award Finalist for “MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy”; Founding Partner at Puck.

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In **Motherland*, Ioffe turns modern Russian history on its head, telling it exclusively through the stories of its women. From her own physician great-grandmothers to Lenin’s lover, a feminist revolutionary; from the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who fought in World War II to the millions of single mothers who rebuilt and repopulated a devastated country; from the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Ioffe chronicles one of the most audacious social experiments in history and how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate—and documents how that failure paved the way for the revanche of Vladimir Putin.

Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, part history, **Motherland* paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. Ioffe shows what it means to live through the cataclysms of revolution, war, idealism, and heartbreak—and reveals how the story of Russia today is inextricably tied to the history of its women.

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