What happens when a nation calls its women to revolution… and then abandons them?
For more than a century, Russia’s women have lived at the sharp edge of history. They marched for equality, raised families through war and famine, carried the weight of utopian dreams, and endured the collapse of failed promises.
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?
Julia Ioffe, an acclaimed and award-winning journalist, will join us to tell the story of modern Russia through the history of its women.
The event will end with an audience Q&A and then stick around for drinks and debriefing.
