Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
From Class Justice to State Security: Imagining a Workers Police in Interwar Europe in, editor(s)Melissa Feinberg and Lisa Kirschenbaum , Routledge History of the Handbook of Communism, Routledge, 2026, [Molly Pucci]
Molly Pucci, Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams: Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2026
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
Molly Pucci, The Anatomy of Stalinist Police States: Blanket Surveillance Networks in Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland, 1949-1952, Journal of Cold War Studies, 23, (4), 2021
Molly Pucci, The Politicization of the Czechoslovak People's Army after the Second World War, Irish Journal of Slavonic Studies, 2020
Molly Pucci, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-1953, Yale University Press, 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]
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]
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
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
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Molly Pucci, Antifascism before Fascism? International Communism and Protest Culture in Central Europe, Intellectual History of Antifascism, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, June 2-4 2026, 2026
Molly Pucci, The International Search for Class Justice in the Interwar Czechoslovak Communist Party, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2025
Molly Pucci, Lawyers and Legal Activism in the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Globalizing Interwar Czechoslovakia, Collegium Carolinum, Munich, Germany, November 2025, 2025
Molly Pucci, Legal Activism and Communism in interwar Central Europe and the United States, Fellows Talk, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 2023
Molly Pucci, Security Empire: Building the Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-1954, Stanford University, 2015
Molly Pucci, The Right to Revolution: Law, Culture, and Communism in the Interwar United States, The Research Group on Transnational History, Bergen, Norway, May 2026
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Polly Corrigan Prize for the best book in the field of Intelligence Studies for first monograph
Kulczycki Book Prize for best book in the field of Polish studies for first monograph
Oskar Halecki Prize for best book in East-Central European History for first monograph
Leibniz Summer Fellow, Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam
Memberships
Book Reviews Editor, Cold War History
Member of Mentoring Committee, Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies