Marc Ferro: Difference between revisions

Marc Ferro
Born	24 December 1924 (1924-12-24) (age 99) Paris, France
Occupation	Historian

Marc Ferro (born 24 December 1924) is a French historian.

Biography

He has 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 died during the Holocaust.^[1]

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

He has 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]

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, 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, 1980]
• La Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, Paris, Gallimard, 1968 (reprinted 1987) [English translation: The Great War, 1914-1918, 1972]^[3]
• 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 ^[4]
• 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, Noesis, 1996
• Les sociétés malades du progrès, Paris, Plon, 1999
• 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.^[5]
• 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.

References