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

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Enhanced with helpful links, visit conversationswither.com. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I'm very happy to be chatting with In person. Julia Yoffey? Most of all we'll be talking about her recent book coming out in paperback,

It is called Motherland, a feminist history of modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. I enjoyed it very much. Julia is also Washington correspondent for Puck, has written just about everywhere else, and appears on TV and radio frequently. Julia, welcome. Thanks for having me, Tyler. feminism in Russian or Soviet history, it's striking to me how many of the top constructivist painters are women. So you have Natalia Gontrarova, you have Alexandra Exter, Popova, others.

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