About the Book: Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution
to Autocracy
A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine
A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it, and
survived it NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, founder of Pussy Riot
Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through
the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.
In 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