{"product_id":"motherland-a-feminist-history-of-modern-russia-from-revolution-to-autocracy-a-national-book-award-finalist","title":"Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy – A National Book Award Finalist","description":"NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER\nFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\nA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK\nNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, Guardian, Elle, and the Chicago Public Library.\nAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.\nIn 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 The Soviet women she had known growing up—doctors, engineers, scientists—seemed to have been replaced by women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms.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?\nIn 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.\nPart 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 006287912X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.006287912X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ioffe, Julia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43593977593917,"sku":"BVV.006287912X.A","price":16.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/006287912X-0.jpg?v=1788815120","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/motherland-a-feminist-history-of-modern-russia-from-revolution-to-autocracy-a-national-book-award-finalist","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}