Motherland A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

Motherland... a National Book Awards finalist. It's about what the Soviet Union was ostensibly this feminist, progressive society, but it treated women like shit. It helped me understand a lot of my own background.

She's a longtime Russia hand, and she's author of the book Motherland about Russian women.

Her book is Motherland.

And in her new book, Motherland, she is telling the story of Russia through its women.

Is Motherland part of a response to being asked so much about one man, Putin? God, yeah. Absolutely. And what he wants. Yeah. I'm just so sick of talking about him.

I just, on one hand, wanted to write a book where he was a bit player. And this was one of the reasons I wrote the book.

Motherland is, she says, partly a response to Putin, through her desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let alone one man.

Julia Yoffe, political journalist, interpreter of Russia and now author of an epic book on the women of Russia.

And in her new book, Motherland, she is telling the story of Russia through its women.

Is Motherland part of a response to being asked so much about one man, Putin? God, yeah. Absolutely.

I just, on one hand, wanted to write a book where he was a bit player.