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Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy

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Episode: Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy

Pub date: 2026-08-05

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Julia Ioffe left the USSR as a child and came back as an adult journalist to find that the confident, credentialed women she remembered from her Soviet childhood had largely been supplanted by those chasing marriage and domesticity instead. That disorienting reversal is the engine of her book Motherland, a National Book Award…

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