Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

獲獎記者茱莉亞・伊奧菲（Julia Ioffe）以女性視角，重述現代俄羅斯的歷史——從革命、烏托邦到專制。

1990 年，7 歲的茱莉亞・伊奧菲與家人逃離蘇聯。近二十年後，她重返莫斯科，卻發現俄羅斯社會在她旅居美國期間已發生翻天覆地的變化。她童年時認識的蘇聯女性——醫生、工程師、科學家——似乎已被渴望嫁入豪門、成為全職主婦的女性取代。俄羅斯是如何從自詡為全球女性主義先鋒，淪為保守基督教價值的最後堡壘？

在《Motherland》中，伊奧菲顛覆傳統史觀，透過俄國女性的故事串起現代歷史。從她身為醫師的曾祖母，到列寧的情人兼女性主義革命家；從數十萬名二戰參戰少女，到重建國家、恢復人口的數百萬單親母親；從抗議團體Pussy Riot到反對派領袖阿列克謝・納瓦爾尼的妻子尤莉婭・納瓦爾娜——她揭示了一場史上最具野心的社會實驗如何最終背叛了本應被解放的女性，並如何為普丁的強勢回歸鋪路。

結合回憶錄、新聞調查與歷史書寫，《Motherland》以深切情感描繪女性在革命、戰爭、理想與心碎交織中的生存之道，也揭露了當代俄羅斯的故事如何與女性的歷史緊密相連。

Award-winning 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, engineers, scientists―had seemingly been replaced with women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms. How had Russia gone from portraying itself as the vanguard of world feminism to the last bastion of conservative Christian values?

In Motherland, Ioffe turns modern Russian history on its head, telling it exclusively through the stories of its women. From her own physician great-grandmothers to Lenin’s lover, a feminist revolutionary; from the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who fought in World War II to the millions of single mothers who rebuilt and repopulated a devastated country; from the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya, wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, she chronicles one of the most audacious social experiments in history and how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate―and documents how that failure paved the way to the revanche of Vladimir Putin.

Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, part history, Motherland paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. With deep emotion, Ioffe shows what it means to live through the cataclysms of revolution, war, idealism, and heartbreak―and reveals how the story of Russia today is inextricably tied to the history of its women.