NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST: An Evening with Julia Ioffe

Schedule

Fri Nov 07 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Books & Books | Coral Gables, FL

Journalist Julia Ioffe joins us for her acclaimed feminist history of Russia MOTHERLAND
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The Books & Books Literary Foundation is proud to present an evening with Julia Ioffe discussing Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Ecco, $35). Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.



🎟️Please note. TICKETS ARE REQUIRED:

  • The 1 Guest + 1 Book ticket ($35 + tax) includes admission for ONE (1) guest and ONE (1) copy of MOTHERLAND upon entry.
  • The 2 Guests + 1 Book ticket ($40+ tax) includes admission for TWO (2) guests and ONE (1) copy of MOTHERLAND upon entry.

*Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE. Please email [email protected] with any questions.


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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD


Acclaimed 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 she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up—doctors, engineers, scientists—seemed to have been replaced by women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms.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 becoming a bastion of conservative Christian values?


In Motherland, 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 documents how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate—and how that failure paved the way for the revanche of Vladimir Putin.


Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, part history, Motherland paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. With deep emotion, Ioffe reveals what it means to live through the cataclysms of revolution, war, idealism, and heartbreak—and how the story of Russia today is inextricably tied to the sacrifices of its women.



About the Author:

JULIA IOFFE is a Russian-born American journalist. Her 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.


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