Article 72BE4 Failed promise of equality for Soviet women

Failed promise of equality for Soviet women

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Journalist Julia Ioffe didn't think the long line of women doctors and scientists in her family was unusual. In Soviet Russia, educated, accomplished women were the norm. But also normal were the burdens of running the home, caring for children and healing a broken country - generation after generation. Ioffe explores how the promise of the Russian revolution failed women in her new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Russia from Revolution to Autocracy." She spoke with Host Marco Werman.

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