François-Xavier Rascal , born on January 27th, 1931, is a Historien French specialist in the Histoire of contemporary Russia.

Course

François-Xavier Coquin was raises ENS of the street of Ulm (1951-1956), Agrégé of history (1955), laid off Russian (1956), boarder of the Fondation Thiers (1959-1962), attached of research to CNRS (1962-1963), assistant, then lecturer with the Sorbonne (1963-1969), arts Doctor of the Sorbonne (1969), professor of Modern history to the Université of Rheims (1969-1976) and senior research worker at CNRS (1972-1975). He usually speaks French, Italian, German and Russian, with a good English level.

He is member of the International commission of history of the Slaves since 1969, like professor of history of Slavic to the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and director of the research center on the history of Slavic since 1976. From 1993 to 2001, it was titular pulpit of modern history and contemporary of the Russian world to the Collège de France.

He is member of the editorial boards of the Revue East-West Comparative studies (Re-examined Is) and of the Revue Slavic Studies .

Work

Independent spirit, very far away from the quarrels of vaults, not very inclined with the mediatization or publicity, François-Xavier Coquin remained little known general public (contrary to French historians specialists in Russia such as Marc Ferro or Helene Carrère d' Encausse) although its contributions to historical knowledge are not less important. He however is recognized by his pars on several continents and particularly appreciated in Russia for the smoothness and the depth of his analyzes on this country. In addition to many writings on the Slavic countries and sometimes, on vaster subjects (the Business Dreyfus, the Nazism and the Communism), its monumental work Siberia: settlement and country immigration at the XIXe century are to be arranged among the great classics on the Colonisation or the territorial expansion of Europeans.

Principal works

• the Russian Revolution , Paris, PUF, coll “Which do I know? ”, 1962,128 pages.
• Siberia: settlement and country immigration at the XIXe century , Paris, Institute of Slavic Studies, 1969,789 pages.
• Large Legislative Commission (1767-1768): urban registers of grievances , Paris, Publication of the Faculty of Arts and Social sciences of Paris-Sorbonne, 1972,258 pages.
• the Revolution of 1917 , Paris, PUF, coll “Clio Files”, 1974,96 pages.
• 1905 : the missed Russian revolution , Brussels, ED. Complex, coll “memory of the century”, 1985,216 pages.
• 1905 : The first Russian revolution , Paris, Publications of the Sorbonne and Institut of Slavic Studies, 1986,568 pages.
• Of the fathers of the people to the father of the people: Russia of 1825 to 1929 , Paris, Sedes, coll “Glances on the history”, 1991,483 pages.
• with Mr. Maslowsky, Mickiewicz, France and Europe , Paris, Institute of Slavic Studies and House of the Social sciences, 2002.

Sources

• Professors emeritus at the Collège de France

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