Marc Ferro
Marc Ferro | |
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| Born | 24 December 1924 Paris, France |
| Died | 21 April 2021(aged 96) Maisons-Laffitte,France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Historian |
Marc Ferro(French pronunciation:[maʁkfɛʁo];24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.
Life and career
[edit]Ferro worked on early twentieth-centuryEuropean history,specialising in the history ofRussiaand theUSSR,as well as the history ofcinema.
HisUkrainian-Jewishmother was murdered during theHolocaust.[1]
He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at theÉcole des hautes études en sciences sociales.He was a co-director of the French reviewAnnalesand co-editor of theJournal of Contemporary History.
He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of theNazis,Leninand theRussian revolutionand on the representation of history in cinema.[2]
Ferro died fromCOVID-19complications inMaisons-Laffittein April 2021, at the age of 96.[3][4]
Honours and awards
[edit]Honours
[edit]- Knight of theLegion of Honour
- Officier of theNational Order of Merit
- Officer of theOrdre des Palmes académiques
- Knight of theOrdre des Arts et des Lettres
Awards
[edit]- 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
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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 atAlbin 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
- 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][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,1996ISBN2-911606-02-7
- 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 (ISBN978-2744151897)
- 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,ISBN978-0745646879(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
[edit]- ^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).Retrieved22 April2021.
- ^translated by Nicole Stone. Routledge; 2nd edition, 2001,ISBN978-0415267359
- ^reedited in 1986 by Payot,ISBN978-2228800303
- ^paperback 2010 (ISBN978-2818501092)
Categories:
- 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