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Marc Ferro

French historian (1924–2021)

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Marc Ferro (; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Author of several books, including The Use and Abuse of History.

Life and career

Marc Ferro was born in Paris to a Greek-Italian father and a Russian-born Jewish mother (née Firdmann (Oudia)), who died in Auschwitz in June 1943.

Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.

He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He was a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.

He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of the Nazis, Lenin and the Russian revolution and on the representation of history in cinema.

Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96.

Honours and awards

Honours

Knight of the Legion of Honour
Officier of the National Order of Merit
Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Awards

City of Paris History Film Prize (France, 1975)
Prize Clio (France, 1988)
Europe's Historical Prize (1994)
Peace Prize (France, 2007)
Prize Saint-Simon (France, 2011)

Honorary degrees

Moscow State University
Bordeaux Montaigne University
University of Chile.

Bibliography

La Révolution de 1917, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967 [English translation: The Russian revolution of February 1917, translated by J.L. Richards, notes and bibliography translated by Nicole Stone, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972]
La Révolution de 1917 T.2: Octobre: Naissance D'une société, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967 (reprinted in 1976, then in 1997 at Albin Michel) [English translation: *October 1917: a social history of the Russian revolution *, translated by Norman Stone, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980]
La Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, Paris, Gallimard, 1968 (reprinted 1987) [English translation: The Great War, 1914-1918, 1972]
Cinéma et Histoire, Paris, Denoël, 1976 (réédité chez Gallimard en 1993) [English translation: Cinema and history, translated by Naomi Greene, 1988]
L'Occident devant la révolution soviétique, Brussels, Complexe, 1980
Suez, Brussels, Complexe, 1981
Comment on raconte l'histoire aux enfants à travers le monde, Paris, Payot, 1981 English translation: [The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught]
L'Histoire sous surveillance : science et conscience de l'histoire, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1985 (reedited in 1987 by Gallimard)
Pétain, Paris, Fayard, 1987 (reedited in 1993 et 1994)
Les Origines de la Perestroïka, Paris, Ramsay, 1990
Nicolas II, Payot, Paris, 1991
Questions sur la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Paris, Casterman, 1993
Histoire des colonisations, des conquêtes aux indépendances (XIIIe-XXe siècle), Paris, Le Seuil, 1994
L'internationale, Paris, Editions Noêsis, 1996
Que transmettre à nos enfants (with Philippe Jammet), Paris, Le Seuil, 2000
Les Tabous de l'histoire, Paris, Nil, 2002
Le Livre noir du colonialisme (director), Paris, Robert Laffont, 2003.
Histoire de France, France Loisirs, 2002 ()
Le choc de l'Islam, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2003
Le Cinéma, une vision de l'histoire, Paris, Le Chêne, 2003
Les Tabous de L'Histoire, Pocket vol. 11949, NiL Éditions, Paris, 2004
Les individus face aux crises du XXe siècle : L'Histoire anonyme, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2005
Le ressentiment dans l' histoire. Odile Jacob, 2007. English (2010): Resentment in History, (paperback)
Ils étaient sept hommes en guerre : Histoire parallèle, Robert Laffont, Paris, 2007.
Autobiographie intellectuelle, Paris, Perrin, 2011
La Vérité sur la tragédie des Romanov, Paris, Taillandier, 2012.
Les Russes, l'esprit d'un peuple, Paris, Taillandier, 2017.
L'Entrée dans la vie, Paris, Tallandier, 2020

References

Novogradvolinsk]] (Russie), décédée le 28 juin 1943 à Auschwitz ([[Poland. Pologne]])."
''French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France'', John Wiley & Sons (2010), p. 240
"Marc Ferro".
[https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/mort-de-l-historien-marc-ferro-specialiste-de-l-histoire-du-xxe-siecle-a-96-ans-20210422 Mort de l'historien Marc Ferro, spécialiste de l'histoire du XXe siècle, à 96 ans] {{in lang. fr
(22 April 2021). "L'historien français Marc Ferro est mort". Le Monde.
translated by Nicole Stone. Routledge; 2nd edition, 2001, {{ISBN. 978-0415267359
reedited in 1986 by Payot, {{ISBN. 978-2228800303
paperback 2010 ({{ISBN. 978-2818501092)

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