To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the last century of Russian history as the ghosts of grandmothers past whisper in your ear. Ioffe, a Russian-born journalist,…
Russia’s feminist paradise proved anything but — even before Putin
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November 03, 2025
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