| Marc Ferro | |
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| Born | (1924-12-24)24 December 1924 Paris, France |
| Died | 21 April 2021(2021-04-21) (aged 96) Maisons-Laffitte, France |
| 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.
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
Bibliography
- La Révolution de 1917, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967
- La Révolution de 1917, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967
- 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)
- La Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, Paris, Gallimard, 1968 (reprinted 1987)
- Cinéma et Histoire, Paris, Denoël, 1976 (réédité chez Gallimard en 1993)
- 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
- 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.
- 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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- 1924 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century French historians
- 21st-century French historians
- French film historians
- French male writers
- French people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- Historians of Europe
- Historians of Vichy France
- French historians of World War II
- Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Writers from Paris
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France