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"An enthralling narrative that is both sweeping and intimate." - New York Times (Editors' Choice)
"Already a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, this is a vivid, personal, and piercing account of broken promises and resilient courage." - Boston Globe
"A riveting new history." - Washington Post
"Motherland offers a fresh take on Russia's turbulent 20th century and the shifting gender politics of its present." - New York Times (Editors' Choice)
"[Ioffe is] superbly placed to tell this story...Interspersed with flashes of memoir, family stories and journalistic encounters, the book acts as a gender-inflected primer on the past hundred years of Russian history...[Ioffe] writes with warmth, charisma and exuberance and is adept at zooming in and out, mixing precise personal detail with broad historical insights. Motherland is packed with data...Cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed." - The Guardian
"Wide-ranging...Complex yet swift-moving." - The New York Review of Books
"Ioffe-whose family fled the Soviet Union when she was a child-brings a unique personal and political perspective to this new book, which tells the story of promises made and broken to [Russia's] women." - Boston Globe
"Ioffe was born in Moscow and knows firsthand that, for example, when her mother started medical school in the 1970s, 70% of doctors in the Soviet Union were women. But what that government claimed to be a great feminist emancipation has not been a lasting one, and the author finds parallels to and warnings of what might happen in this country if women's rights continue to be diminished." - Los Angeles Times, "10 Books to Read in October"
"This kaleidoscopic volume from Ioffe, a finalist for this year's National Book Award, combines memoir, journalism, and history to paint a nuanced portrait of modern Russia, all through the lens of womanhood." - The Millions
"Piercing . . . A pensive account of a revolution betrayed." - Kirkus
"Julia Ioffe, in her magnificent new book, asks how Russia, which gave rise to some of the world's most radical feminist ideas in the early twentieth century, ended up as a bastion of traditional gender roles a hundred years later. From the Bolshevik feminists to the wives of Soviet leaders to her own Jewish great-grandmothers and their improbable survival, her story crackles with revolutionary action, the tragedy of missed opportunity, and brave struggles against authoritarianism. It is an urgent book for all of us." - Sabrina Tavernise, writer at large and former Moscow correspondent for The New York Times and former host of "The Daily"
"Julia Ioffe tracks the transformation of Russia from dictatorship to democracy and back again in sharp, engaging prose, telling the stories left out by so many others." - Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine
"Motherland is the most brilliant survey of Russian and Soviet women ever written. Women, the 'draft horses of the economy,' have been abused in every patriarchal way possible and yet somehow remain the only slim hope for the world's most hopeless country. Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, Ioffe has produced a page-turner full of bittersweetness and humor." - Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story
