Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,fr Kate Laud they get to the contradictions

they get to the contradictions at the heart of it: beauty and horror

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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,fr Kate Laud they get to the contradictionsFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 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,