Publications and Further Research Outputs
- 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 - 344Journal Article, 2017
- 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 - 22Journal Article, 2018
- Molly Pucci, The Politicization of the Czechoslovak People's Army after the Second World War, Irish Journal of Slavonic Studies, 2020Journal Article, 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, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-1953, Yale University Press, 2020Book, 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
- 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), 2021Journal Article, 2021
- 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, 2023Journal Article, 2023
- Molly Pucci, Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams: Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2026Book, 2026
- 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]Book Chapter, 2026
- Molly Pucci, Security Empire: Building the Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-1954, Stanford University, 2015Thesis
- 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, 2026Oral Presentation
- Molly Pucci, The Right to Revolution: Law, Culture, and Communism in the Interwar United States, The Research Group on Transnational History, Bergen, Norway, May 2026Oral Presentation
- Molly Pucci, Lawyers and Legal Activism in the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Globalizing Interwar Czechoslovakia, Collegium Carolinum, Munich, Germany, November 2025, 2025Oral Presentation
- Molly Pucci, The International Search for Class Justice in the Interwar Czechoslovak Communist Party, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2025Oral Presentation
- 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, 2023Oral Presentation
Research Expertise
History, Heritage and Archaeology,
Recognition
- Kulczycki Book Prize for best book in the field of Polish studies for first monograph 2021
- Polly Corrigan Prize for the best book in the field of Intelligence Studies for first monograph 2022
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 2023-2024
- Oskar Halecki Prize for best book in East-Central European History for first monograph 2021
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 2022-2023
- Leibniz Summer Fellow, Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam September 2018
- Book Reviews Editor, Cold War History 2024
- Member of Mentoring Committee, Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2022