Marc Ferro
French historian (1924–2021)
Marc Ferro
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1924-12-24
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24 December 1924
Paris, France
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21 April 2021
(2021-04-21)
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Maisons-Laffitte
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Nationality | French |
Occupation | Historian |
Marc Ferro ( French pronunciation: [maʁk fɛʁo] ; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.
Life and career
Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history , specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR , as well as the history of cinema .
His Ukrainian-Jewish mother was murdered during the Holocaust . [1]
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. [2]
Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96. [3] [4]
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
Bibliography
- La Révolution de 1917 , Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne , 1967 [English translation: The Russian revolution of February 1917 , translated by J.L. Richards, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972]
- 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] [5]
- 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
- The Use and Abuse of History, Or, How the Past is Taught , 1981
- Comment on raconte l'histoire aux enfants à travers le monde , Paris, Payot , 1983 [6]
- 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 ISBN 2-911606-02-7
- 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. [7]
- Histoire de France, France Loisirs , 2002 ( ISBN 978-2744151897 )
- 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 , ISBN 978-0745646879 (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
- ↑ Kevin J. Callahan "16 Marc Ferro (1924- )" in Philip Daileader & Philip Whalen, French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France , John Wiley & Sons (2010), p. 240
- ↑ "Marc Ferro" . IMDb .
- ↑ Mort de l'historien Marc Ferro, spécialiste de l'histoire du XXe siècle, à 96 ans (in French)
- ↑ Catinchi, Philippe-Jean (22 April 2021). "L'historien français Marc Ferro est mort" . Le Monde (in French) . Retrieved 22 April 2021 .
- ↑ 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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