Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author, sat down with Russian-born author and American journalist Julia Ioffe to discuss her new book Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy. Nominated for a National Book Award for non-fiction, Motherland frames 150 years of Russian history through the social and political treatment women. Using stories from her own family, along with oral histories and other records, Ioffe included the rare but incredibly rich history of what it feels like to live through tumult and chaos of a nation that once was the vanguard of feminism and is now rigidly patriarchal.
Julia Ioffe’s articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic. Ioffe has appeared on television programs on MSNBC, CBS, PBS, and other news channels as a Russia expert. She is a founding partner and Washington correspondent at Puck.