Revolution, She Wrote : Historical Fiction and Radical Knowledge in Interwar Europe

her place among the cultural workers of the new Soviet state by writing histories of the Bolshevik revolution's ancestors. All three authors belonged on the left side of the political spectrum and remained at the periphery to the cultural markets and intellectual milieus in their countries. Their fictionalized revolutions are thus marked, on the one hand, by sympathy and engagement, and on the other, by their ex-centric positions. Revolution, She Wrote demonstrates the dynamic entanglement of national and pan-European historical cultures, breaking with the defeatist perception of interwar left-wing intellectual activism to advance historical writing as a locus of hope and resistance. [Publisher's text]

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