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-...

“[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.

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.

"Motherland is deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written—an exhilarating read."

www.bookpage.com/reviews/moth...

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...

"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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Thank you, Glenn! Can't wait to hear what you think of it!

The World’s Greatest Feminist Experiment Was Not Where You’d Think

"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...

MOTHERLAND is finally out today! And she's a finalist for the National Book Award.

Get your copy today!

bookshop.org/p/books/moth...

Thank you, Susan! And thank you for believing in me all those years ago!

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…

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...

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...

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

MOTHERLAND, says the @washingtonpost.com, is "riveting."

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Thank you, Miriam! 😭

Motherland: a feminist history of modern Russia, from revolution to autocracy 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

Thank you!

DC folks! Come to my book launch tomorrow night with the legendary Sabrina Tavernise, at Politics & Prose!

politics-prose.com/julia-ioffe

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.

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-...

Thank you!

Thank you! I think the title is perfect!

Thank you both!

Thank you!

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

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...

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.

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-...

Check out the Boston book festival later this month! ;)

David Remnick and I.

92nd St Y.

October 23.

Come.

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-...

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-...

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...

“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...

Thank you! You've been on this journey with me for ages!

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

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.