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).

"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"Molly Pucci's compelling account of the KSČ 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

• Introduction: On Dreams, Verse, and a Communist Central Europe1. Two Types of Communists2. A Small Central Europe3. Journalistic Dreams and Nightmares of Bolshevism4. Life Is Poetry!5. The International Search for Class JusticeConclusion: The Legacy of the 1920s and the Idea of Central Europe