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Julia Ioffe Wants You to Know Russia Is Bigger Than Putin

Julia Ioffe Wants You to Know Russia Is Bigger Than Putin

The Mishal Husain Show vor 11 Monaten

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How do you tell the history of a whole country through its women?
And what can it tell us about the world today? These are the
questions Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe set out to
answer in her new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern
Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy.

Having reported from, and on, Russia for publications including
The New Yorker and Foreign Policy for more than a decade, Ioffe
says she has repeatedly been asked to explain the actions and
motivations of one man: Vladimir Putin.

Motherland is, she says, partly a response to Putin, through her
desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let
alone one man.

In this conversation Ioffe talks to Mishal about reclaiming
Russia’s women, about Donald Trump’s hollowing out of American
institutions and why Putinism will endure. (Note: This podcast
contains a discussion of sexual violence that some listeners may
find distressing.)

02:30 - “I was born in a country that no longer exists”

03:55 - The anti-feminist at Lenin’s side during the
Revolution

06:55 - Reluctancy to write about Russian women

12:55 - What a “horrible boyfriend” Vladimir Putin was

16:50 - Return to Russia, oligarch hunters and ‘trad wives’

22:13 - Alexei Navalny, “the last shred of hope”

29:20 - Can Russia sustain the war in Ukraine?

32:32 - Trump’s assault on US institutions, faster than
Putin

34:30 - American authoritarianism, risk of “one party state”

Watch this podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s
notes on Bloomberg Weekend:
https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

Contact The Mishal Husain Show mishalshow@bloomberg.net

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