Molly Pucci is Assistant Professor of Twentieth Century European History at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of the award-winning book Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe (2020).
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"Molly Pucci's compelling account of the KSC makes the case for Prague rather than Moscow as the intellectual center of Central European communism. It tells the story of a diverse and multinational movement whose members hoped to revolutionize everything from poetry to the justice system." --Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University "Pucci's multinational approach to the early history of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the Comintern turns the conventional narrative on its head. Broad in its scope and ambition, Pucci's story of these Central European dreamers and doers is inspiring and convincing. A thoroughly enjoyable book!" --Peter Bugge, Aarhus University "Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams brings to life a lost world of interwar Czechoslovak communism, reinterpreting it as a Central European story. One of the most thought-provoking studies on international communism to appear in many years." --Michael David-Fox, Georgetown University