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Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe Bloomberg
llustration: Uli Knrzer for BloombergJulia Ioffe on Why Putinism Wont Die With Putin
The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russias women, the demented family heirlooms of Soviet trauma, and the countrys relationship with its chief decision-maker.
By , November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM EST
Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking especially when the countrys history includes totalitarianism, extreme violence and repression.
Its a task taken on by the Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe in her new book Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy ().
From Alexandra Kollontai who laid the foundations of gender equality in the Soviet Union to legions of women persecuted and abused over generations, Ioffes book weaves between notable figures airbrushed from Russian history and individuals who wouldnt have thought themselves remarkable, including her own female relatives.
Motherland also comes right up to the present day. Having spent more than a decade reporting from, and on, Russia for publications including the New Yorker and Foreign Policy, Ioffe says she has repeatedly been asked to explain the actions and motivations of Vladimir Putin. Motherland embodies her desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let alone one man.
To me, the book feels born of both love and despair for the country where Ioffe was born. Love, because it is a part of her through family members shaped by its tumult despair, because she sees Russia as trapped in a cycle of authoritarianism and thaw, never a full spring.
We spoke in Washington, DC, where Ioffe lives and works.
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Motherland is an immense work the story of modern Russia through its women, including the women of your family, because Russia is where you were born in the 1980s, in the time before
1 Ioffe was 4 years old when openness policy began to relax censorship and release dissidents. In 1991, his successor Boris Yeltsin brought the Soviet Union to an end. I witnessed the chaotic period that followed when I lived in Moscow Ioffes native city in 1992 after having studied Russian at school.
Yes. I actually was born in a country that no longer exists in many senses of the word the Soviet Union but also the emancipatory experiment it embarked on in 1917 vis-a-vis its women is gone.
Im keen to understand to what extent the stories of your grandparents generation, and those before, were told to you. Theres one moment in the book when youre still in high school and your mother sits you down and reads from
2 (1889-1966) was a giant of Russian literature. Her poem Requiem, written in the 1930s, is about her suffering over the politically charged detention of her son. It was not published in Russia until the 1980s.
Yes. The cosmic violence, the way it mangled Soviet, and then Russian, society forever. It was such a formative experience for the people who lived it and survived it, that their children and grandchildren were marked by it because of the family stories, because of the lessons of survival. Many of them, quite macabre, were passed down to us as demented family heirlooms.
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Editors Note: The article jumps here, and is excellent. I wanted to include one of the comments about Trump.
I want to ask you about your work today, covering Washington. How has it been as a journalist, given the ways in which the Trump administration has tried to or the press.
11 Ioffe is Washington correspondent for , a digital media company founded in 2021 whose the writers are also partners in the business.
Donald Trump has been able to do, in less than a year, what it took Vladimir Putin two decades to do, in certain cases.
The speed at which he has hollowed out American institutions the courts, the legislative body, every check and balance imaginable, the way private industry has bent the knee, rather than risk their profits forgetting, by the way, that more than half the country doesnt like this makes me disappointed in my American compatriots.
In all those years I was reporting on Putin, anytime he did something restrictive, authoritarian, I would be asked to come on TV or to write a piece. People would say, Why arent Russians out in the streets protesting and overthrowing him Cant they see how terrible it is Cant they see hes a dictator Surely young people, college students, hate this
I want to ask all of them, Why arent Americans in the streets, demanding answers and demanding a change Not protests by appointment, with funny posters, but real protests. Why arent we holding our corporations to account, our Congress to account
Donald Trump that he is the speaker of the US House of Representatives and the president. Hes essentially dissolved Parliament. If I were a foreign correspondent here, trying to explain this for an audience back home, thats how I would write it.
Trump looks down from the presidential box in the Kennedy Center opera house on March 17 in Washington, DC. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesContinue/Read Original Article Here:
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