Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss her acclaimed new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, which is a finalist for the National Book Awards. They chart the book’s origins to its publication, how Putin’s Russia has changed since the early days of Julia’s remarkable undertaking, what she discovered while reporting on her native country through a feminist lens, and much more.

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