Bohemian Bolsheviks : Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left /
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 engage...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2025.
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Historical Materialism Book Series ;
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction- Marxism and Literary Radicalism: Methodology, Memory, and the Lure of Easy History
- Part1 The Left in US Literature
- 1 Inconvenient Truths: The Communist Conundrum in Life and Art
- 2 The Culture War Over Literary Communism
- 3 Imagined Solidarities: The Bolshevik Revolution and the Literary Left
- 4 Reconstructing the 'Humanscape' of Left Culture and Commitment: An Interview with Alan Wald
- 5 Noir and the Ebb of Radical Hope
- Part2 Fiction and Poetry
- 6 Steinbeck and the Proletarian Novel
- 7 Back to the Future in Howard Fast's Freedom Road
- 8 American Poetry and the Popular Front
- 9 The Murdered Dreams of Aaron Kramer: A Marxist Poet In The 'American Century'
- 10 Hero- International Brigade
- 11 Marxism and the Modernist Poet: A Tale of Two Delmores
- Part3 Gender and the Left
- 12 Bohemian Bolsheviks After World War II : A Minority Within a Minority
- 13 Sanora Babb in Her Time and Ours
- 14 ' Sexing the Left : Interview with Alan M.Wald,' by William J.Maxwell
- 15 Wheelwright and His Kind
- 16 Motley's Men: The Queer Haunting of We Fished All Night
- 17 The Trotskyist Time Forgot: The Permanent Rebellion of Nicolas Calas
- 18 The Red and the Queer
- Part4 Race and Class
- 19 The Marxist Imagination of Theodore Ward
- (September15, 1902-May8, 1983)
- 20 Race and the Logic of Capital
- 21 Protesting the Protest Novel: Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground
- 22 The Black Internationalism of William Gardner Smith
- 23 Blood on the Forge : A Masterful Proletarian Novel
- 24 From 'Triple Oppression' to 'Freedom Dreams'
- Part5 Commitment
- 25 'A Seemingly Incongruous Alliance': Bryan Palmer, Revolutionary Teamsters
- 26 Trotsky: Between the Power and the Dream
- 27 Fascinating Antifascism: Enzo Traverso's Fire and Blood
- 28 A Theater for the Poor: Cleveland and SDS / ERAP in the Mid-1960s
- 29 Gramsci's Gift
- 30 H.Chandler Davis, a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
- 31 The Straight and the Crooked: BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
- Part6 The Radical Vision
- 32 Riddle Me This, Comrade: 100 Years of US Communism
- 33 Protest, Passion, Politics
- 34 Reaching for Revolution
- 35 The Present of Future Things
- 36 Astonished by the Present: The Impatient Life of Daniel Bensäid
- 37 Missives for the Future: Michael Löwy's Close Encounters with the US Left
- Bibliography
- Index.