Historical Materialism Book Series344 Bohemian Bolsheviks

Bohemian Bolsheviks provides an illustrative survey of interventions characteristic of Alan Wald’s interdisciplinary scholarship during the past two decades through thirty-seven essays tracking a supranational cultural tradition of collective moral responsibility still evolving as serious unfinished business. The rubric, ‘Bohemian Bolsheviks,’ captures Alan Wald’s sustained fascination with persistent contradictions between the image of Left political commitment and the actuality of experience, especially in relation to cultural work and cultural workers. Marxist political alignment engages a welter of intimate and biographical factors enriching the record of a varied history of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and other intellectual practices. Exploring a field of study marked by enduring paradoxes of modernity, this volume is a sharp reminder that historical narrative not only shapes our sense of the terrain under our feet—but also the horizon in front of us. Listen to the interview on his book with Alan Wald, conducted by Stephen Dozeman, on New Books Network.