Join the Wende Museum in partnership with the Skirball Cultural Center for an evening with acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe, discussing her National Book Award–finalist Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy.

In this sweeping narrative, Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the lives of its women, from revolutionaries and soldiers to mothers, dissidents, and artists.

Drawing on personal history and decades of reporting, Ioffe traces how Soviet ideals of equality gave way to a new patriarchy under Putin, revealing what the transformation means for women and for Russia’s future. Part memoir, part history, Motherland is both intimate and political, exploring how the promise of liberation became a story of endurance and loss.

Free and open to the public. Book sales and signing to follow.

Julia Ioffe is a Russian-born American journalist. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic. Ioffe has appeared on television programs on MSNBC, CBS, PBS, and other news channels as a Russia expert. She is a founding partner and Washington correspondent at Puck.