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: [maʁk fɛʁo]; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.
Life and career
Ferro worked on early twentieth-century
USSR, as well as the history of cinema
.
His
Holocaust.[1]
He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the
Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History
.
He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of 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, 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
- 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, 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.
- ISBN 978-0415267359
- ISBN 978-2228800303
- ISBN 978-2818501092)
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