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Alessandra Stanley

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A critic and historian of Television. But not the band Television.

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Julia Ioffe’s "Motherland" Exposes the High Cost of Womanhood in Putin’s Russia

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By Alessandra Stanley
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read Motherland People may get the government they deserve, but Russian women don’t. The Bolsheviks’ promise of equality broke down quickly: in her new book, Motherland, Julia Ioffe chronicles how Soviet women could become doctors and scientists but still had to shop, cook, raise the children, and mop the floors. Ioffe, whose family immigrated to the United States in 1990, when she was seven, returned as a reporter in 2009.
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Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley on Six Years of AIR MAIL

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By Graydon Carter, Alessandra Stanley
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It seems funny now, but on July 20, 2019, we were so excited—and nervous—about the first issue of Air Mail that a group of us gathered at the office on West Ninth Street at five a.m. to watch the first batch of Saturday e-mails go out, holding our breath like NASA engineers launching the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981. Only chief technology officer John Tornow, who pressed Send from mission control, was serenely confident. Now we all are.
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Many Russians Who Escaped Putin’s Iron Curtain Are Now Facing the Same Terrifying Fate

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By Alessandra Stanley
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In the 1985 Cold War thriller White Nights, Mikhail Baryshnikov plays a Soviet ballet dancer who defects to the West. Years later, when his plane makes an emergency landing in Siberia, the dancer races down the aisle in horror, screaming, “We are landing in Russia!” Many Russians who managed to escape Putin’s iron curtain are now facing the same terrifying fate, only this time the destination isn’t an accident.
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