Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
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MOTHERLAND is finally out today! And she's a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your copy today!
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Get your copy today!
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"Motherland is deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written—an exhilarating read."
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Book review of Motherland by Julia Ioffe
Deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written, Julia Ioffe’s feminist history of modern Russia, Motherland, is exhilarating.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Motherland is deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written—an exhilarating read."
www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...
www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...
Glenn Kessler just made my day.
Just finished it @juliaioffe.bsky.social! What an extraordinary, brilliant feat of writing and reporting. Reframing history through the eyes of women taught me so much - and I have shelves of books on the Boshevik revolution that shamefully left women out of the story. A necessary corrective. Bravo!
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Glenn Kessler just made my day.
San Francisco, COME THROUGH!
Journalist @juliaioffe.bsky.social comes to @cwclub.bsky.social in San Francisco Nov. 5 for a talk with @crooked.com's @janecoaston.bsky.social about "Motherland"—her feminist history of modern Russia, from revolution to autocracy.
Details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
San Francisco, COME THROUGH!
Of all the interviews I've done about MOTHERLAND, this one was my favorite. Thank you, @kevinrothrock.me !
On the latest episode of The Naked Pravda, I spoke to @juliaioffe.bsky.social (!) about her new book, "Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy," now available at bookstores everywhere.
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Julia Ioffe’s ‘Motherland’ — Meduza
Journalist Julia Ioffe returns to The Naked Pravda to discuss her new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, which was recently listed as a finalist for t...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Of all the interviews I've done about MOTHERLAND, this one was my favorite. Thank you, @kevinrothrock.me !
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
Journalist @juliaioffe.bsky.social comes to @cwclub.bsky.social in San Francisco Nov. 5 for a talk with @crooked.com's @janecoaston.bsky.social about "Motherland"—her feminist history of modern Russia, from revolution to autocracy.
Details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
October 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Journalist @juliaioffe.bsky.social comes to @cwclub.bsky.social in San Francisco Nov. 5 for a talk with @crooked.com's @janecoaston.bsky.social about "Motherland"—her feminist history of modern Russia, from revolution to autocracy.
Details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
“[Trump] is starting to realize Putin is playing him...if you’re Donald Trump and you think you’re the one who plays everyone, that’s got to suck.”” @juliaioffe.bsky.social on Trump ruling out the idea of a meeting with Putin after hitting Russia with sanctions.
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“[Trump] is starting to realize Putin is playing him...if you’re Donald Trump and you think you’re the one who plays everyone, that’s got to suck.”” @juliaioffe.bsky.social on Trump ruling out the idea of a meeting with Putin after hitting Russia with sanctions.
"Motherland is deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written—an exhilarating read."
www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...
www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...
Book review of Motherland by Julia Ioffe
Deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written, Julia Ioffe’s feminist history of modern Russia, Motherland, is exhilarating.
www.bookpage.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Motherland is deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written—an exhilarating read."
www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...
www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
I just started reading my advance copy last night and it is BRILLIANT. Impeccably researched, written with such verve.
Bonus: Julia Ioffe is a wonderful human and friend, on top of being an amazing journalist and historian.
Buy this book!: bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
Bonus: Julia Ioffe is a wonderful human and friend, on top of being an amazing journalist and historian.
Buy this book!: bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I just started reading my advance copy last night and it is BRILLIANT. Impeccably researched, written with such verve.
Bonus: Julia Ioffe is a wonderful human and friend, on top of being an amazing journalist and historian.
Buy this book!: bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
Bonus: Julia Ioffe is a wonderful human and friend, on top of being an amazing journalist and historian.
Buy this book!: bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
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"Russia through the history of its women."
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @juliaioffe.bsky.social & @eccobooks.bsky.social!
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Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @juliaioffe.bsky.social & @eccobooks.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Russia through the history of its women."
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @juliaioffe.bsky.social & @eccobooks.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @juliaioffe.bsky.social & @eccobooks.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Thank you, Glenn! Can't wait to hear what you think of it!
Congratulations @juliaioffe.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read it.
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thank you, Glenn! Can't wait to hear what you think of it!
"The result is an enthralling narrative that is both sweeping and intimate."
The New York Times loves MOTHERLAND!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
The New York Times loves MOTHERLAND!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
The World’s Greatest Feminist Experiment Was Not Where You’d Think
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October 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"The result is an enthralling narrative that is both sweeping and intimate."
The New York Times loves MOTHERLAND!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
The New York Times loves MOTHERLAND!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
MOTHERLAND is finally out today! And she's a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your copy today!
bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
Get your copy today!
bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
October 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
MOTHERLAND is finally out today! And she's a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your copy today!
bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
Get your copy today!
bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
Congrats to @juliaioffe.bsky.social on today’s publication of ‘Motherland’! It’s a terrific book that helps explain why Russia is the way it is today, and you should read it and see why it’s already a finalist for the National Book Award…
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Congrats to @juliaioffe.bsky.social on today’s publication of ‘Motherland’! It’s a terrific book that helps explain why Russia is the way it is today, and you should read it and see why it’s already a finalist for the National Book Award…
My book MOTHERLAND is finally out today! To celebrate, we at
@puck.news are running an excerpt. It's one of my very favorite chapters: the story of how Putin met and married his first wife—and what a shitty husband he was.
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@puck.news are running an excerpt. It's one of my very favorite chapters: the story of how Putin met and married his first wife—and what a shitty husband he was.
puck.news/from-julia-i...
Putin in Love
Inside the courtship of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, his first imperial subject. Adapted from Julia Ioffe’s new book, Motherland, a feminist history of modern Russia and a finalist for the...
puck.news
October 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My book MOTHERLAND is finally out today! To celebrate, we at
@puck.news are running an excerpt. It's one of my very favorite chapters: the story of how Putin met and married his first wife—and what a shitty husband he was.
puck.news/from-julia-i...
@puck.news are running an excerpt. It's one of my very favorite chapters: the story of how Putin met and married his first wife—and what a shitty husband he was.
puck.news/from-julia-i...
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
Excited for the world to get its hands on this book tomorrow. Finished it this weekend, and @juliaioffe.bsky.social has written a real tour de force - incredible stories, amazing research, beautiful writing
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Excited for the world to get its hands on this book tomorrow. Finished it this weekend, and @juliaioffe.bsky.social has written a real tour de force - incredible stories, amazing research, beautiful writing
DC folks! Come to my book launch tomorrow night with the legendary Sabrina Tavernise, at Politics & Prose!
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Julia Ioffe — Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy - with Sabrina Tavernise — at Conn Ave
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October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
DC folks! Come to my book launch tomorrow night with the legendary Sabrina Tavernise, at Politics & Prose!
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Reposted by Julia Ioffe
Twenty years ago, I started my first job out of college: fact-checking at @NewYorker.
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Real Housewives of Moscow
Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.
www.newyorker.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Twenty years ago, I started my first job out of college: fact-checking at @NewYorker.
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A "monumental history": In her new book "Motherland," out this week, @juliaioffe.bsky.social brings to life the story of women in Russia in a powerful way that no one else has before. A great review from @caseyschwartz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Russian women take center stage in ‘Motherland,’ a riveting new history
Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from achievement to marginalization
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A "monumental history": In her new book "Motherland," out this week, @juliaioffe.bsky.social brings to life the story of women in Russia in a powerful way that no one else has before. A great review from @caseyschwartz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Twenty years ago, I started my first job out of college: fact-checking at @NewYorker.
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Real Housewives of Moscow
Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.
www.newyorker.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Twenty years ago, I started my first job out of college: fact-checking at @NewYorker.
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND.
Totally and wonderfully surreal.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
Hey, New York people! I'm coming to the 92nd St Y to talk to David Remnick about my book, MOTHERLAND, now a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey, New York people! I'm coming to the 92nd St Y to talk to David Remnick about my book, MOTHERLAND, now a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
Hey, New York people! I'm coming to the 92nd St Y to talk to David Remnick about my book, MOTHERLAND, now a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
www.92ny.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey, New York people! I'm coming to the 92nd St Y to talk to David Remnick about my book, MOTHERLAND, now a finalist for the National Book Award.
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
Get your tickets today!
www.92ny.org/event/julia-...
“That’s not what you train for,” one retired Marine officer told me. (“I’m not a liberal,” he made clear.) “You’re hearing, ‘Blood makes the grass grow! Kill, kill, kill!’ in bayonet training, and then you send them to a U.S. city?”
My latest.
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My latest.
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Portlandia
As Trump masses troops outside blue cities in the name of protecting federal properties, current and former members of the military grapple with the question of which orders are legal—and resent being...
puck.news
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“That’s not what you train for,” one retired Marine officer told me. (“I’m not a liberal,” he made clear.) “You’re hearing, ‘Blood makes the grass grow! Kill, kill, kill!’ in bayonet training, and then you send them to a U.S. city?”
My latest.
puck.news/what-the-tro...
My latest.
puck.news/what-the-tro...
Reposted by Julia Ioffe
Congratulations to Princeton professors @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social and @appletwigli.bsky.social and alumna @juliaioffe.bsky.social '05 who were named finalists for National Book Awards this week.
2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature
www.nationalbook.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Congratulations to Princeton professors @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social and @appletwigli.bsky.social and alumna @juliaioffe.bsky.social '05 who were named finalists for National Book Awards this week.