{"product_id":"motherland-a-feminist-history-of-modern-russia-from-revolution-to-autocracy-julia-ioffe-hardcover","title":"Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy -- Julia Ioffe, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow--only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up--doctors, engineers, scientists--had seemingly been replaced with women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms. How had Russia gone from portraying itself as the vanguard of world feminism to the last bastion of conservative Christian values? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part journalistic exploration, part history, \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. With deep emotion, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Ioffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062879127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2024 pg. 10","brand":"Ioffe, Julia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46864860479716,"sku":"9780062879127","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780062879127.jpg?v=1777418698","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/motherland-a-feminist-history-of-modern-russia-from-revolution-to-autocracy-julia-ioffe-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}