Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left

Bohemian Bolsheviks offers a sharp reminder that historical narrative not only shapes our sense of the terrain under our feet, but the horizon in front of us.

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. In this book, Alan Wald sets out to explore a field of study which is marked by the enduring paradoxes of modernity. The rubric “Bohemian ...