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Dr. Molly Pucci
Assistant Professor, History

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Molly Pucci, Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams: Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe, Stanford University Press, Stanford University Press, 2025 Book, 2025

Molly Pucci, The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State-Building in East-Central Europe after the Second World War,, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

Molly Pucci, The Anatomy of a Police State: Blanket Surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland, Journal of Cold War Studies, 2020 Journal Article, 2020

Molly Pucci, The Politicization of the Czechoslovak People's Army after the Second World War, Irish Journal of Slavonic Studies, 2020 Journal Article, 2020

Molly Pucci, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-1953, Yale University Press, 2020 Book, 2020

Constructing a Confession: The Language and Psychology of Interrogations in Stalinist Czechoslovakia in, editor(s)James Ryan and Susan Grant , Revising Stalin and Stalinism , Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020, [Molly Pucci] Book Chapter, 2020

Policing the Police: Counterintelligence, the 'Instructor Group' and the Stalinization of the Czechoslovak Secret Police in, editor(s)Muriel Blaive , Perceptions of the Top in East-Central Europe, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019, [Molly Pucci] Book Chapter, 2019

Molly Pucci, A Revolution in a Revolution: The Secret Police and the Origins of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1952, East European Politics and Societies, 32, (1), 2018, p3 - 22 Journal Article, 2018

Molly Pucci, Translating the State: Czechoslovakia's Search for the Soviet Model of the Secret Police, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies, 18, (2), 2017, p317 - 344 Journal Article, 2017

Molly Pucci, The Anatomy of Stalinist Police States: Blanket Surveillance Networks in Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland, 1949"1952, Journal of Cold War Studies Journal Article,

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Molly Pucci, Translating 'Bolshevik' into Czech: Language and the Stalinization of Czechoslovakia, Revising Stalin and Stalinism , University College Cork, 2018 Oral Presentation, 2018

Molly Pucci, Security Empire: Building the Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-1954, Stanford University, 2015 Thesis, 2015