Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro , born in 1924, is a historian French, specialist in the Russia and the USSR and Histoire of the cinema.

Biography

Marc Ferro takes part during the Occupation in the Résistance in the Maquis of Vercors. After the war, he teaches in Algeria. He specializes starting from the beginning of the year 1960 in the Soviet history (its thesis of doctorate relates to the Russian Révolution of 1917), field in which he tried to carry a nonideological speech. Its studies in the field of the social Histoire slice with the analyzes then dominant of the “school” of the Totalitarisme. It shows that the insurrection of October is not reduced to the Coup d'etat Bolshevik, because she is indissociable movement Révolutionnaire and popular in progress. It also analyzes the process of Bureaucratisation - absolutisation of the capacity starting from the top, but also of the base.

After having taught with the Polytechnic school, he is director of studies to the École of the high studies in social sciences (group of Cinéma research and History), president of Association for research with the EHESS and deputy manager of the '' Annales '', where he is named by Fernand Braudel in 1970. Former director of the Institute of the Soviet world and the Central Europe, he is Doctor honoris causa of the Université of Moscow since 1999.

Marc Ferro initiated the reflection on the cinema and the history. It uses the cinema as instrument of knowledge of the history of the companies, considering that the cinema delivers a testimony as well as traditional sources. It presented on television, initially on the Seven as from 1989, then on Arte as from 1992, a historical emission of visionnage of files with a 50 years shift, named “parallel Histoire”: its starting corresponds the day before the Second world war, with the analysis of cinema news of the various camps, then less old files to be able to compare the times. In 1993, he is Co-scenario writer of the film Pétain of Jean Marbœuf.

In March 2007, it signs with 150 intellectuals a text which invites to vote for Ségolène Royal, “against a line of arrogance”, for “a left of hope”.

Distinctions

Officer of the National order of the Merit
Officer of the academic Palms
Knight of the Arts and Lettres

Price of the town of Paris of film of history, 1975
Clio Price, 1988
Price Europe, 1994

Honorary doctor:

University of Moscow, 1998
University of Bordeaux, 2003

Works classified by topics

Secondary classification by date of first publication.

Communism, the USSR and Russia

the Revolution of 1917 , Sapwood, coll “historical Collection”, Paris, 1967,2 vol. (vol. 1: the fall of tsarism and origins of October, 607 p.; vol. 2: October: birth of a company , 517 p.)
the Large revolutionists , T. 4: communist Revolutionists with the conquest of the capacity: the one century hope (Marc Ferro, Jean Rous and Jean-Marcel Bichat), Martinsart, Romorantin, 1978,445 p. - 40 p. of pl.
Of the Soviets to bureaucratic Communism: mechanisms of a subversion (with the collaboration of Helene de Chavagnac), Gallimard and Julliard, coll “Files”, Paris, 1980,269 p.
Occident in front of the Soviet revolution: history and its myths , Complex, coll “Memory of the century”, Brussels, 1980,160p.
50 ideas which shook the world: dictionary of the glasnost (Iouri Afanassiev and Marc Ferro, to dir., Galina Kolosova, réd., translated from Russian by Tamara Kondrateva, Marie-Helene Mandrillon, Chewed Tournié), Payot, coll “Payot Documents”, Paris, 1989,521 p.
Culture and revolution (Sheila Fitzpatrick and Marc Ferro, to dir.), Editions of the EHESS, Paris, 1989,183 p.
Of Russia in the USSR. History of Russia of 1850 to our days (Rene Girault and Marc Ferro), Nathan, Paris, 1989,256 p.
Origins of the perestroika , Ramsay, coll “Tests”, Paris, 1990,147 p.
Nicolas II , Payot, Paris, 1991,276 p.
the State of all Russies , the Discovery, Paris, 1993.
the International one: of Eugene Pottier and Pierre Degeyter , Noêsis, coll “Work”, Paris, 1996,108 p.
Birth and collapse of the Communist regime in Russia , French general Bookstore, coll “the Book of Pocket. References”, Paris, 1997,152 p. (Joins together courses given to the French university College of Moscow)
Nazisme and Communism. Two modes in the century (Marc Ferro, ED.), Hatchet, Plural, Paris, 1999,278 p.
Russia, people and civilizations (Marie-Helene Mandrillon and Marc Ferro, to dir.), the Discovery, coll “the Discovery-pocket. The State of the world”, Paris, 2005,203 p.

Arab World and Colonization

Suez , Complex, coll “Memory of the century”, Brussels, 1982,159 p.
History of colonizations: conquests with independences (XIIIe-20th century) , the Threshold, coll “historical Universe”, Paris, 1994,525 p.
the Shock of Islam , Odile Jacob, coll “History”, Paris, 2002,270 p.
the black Book of colonialism: XVIe-21e century, of the extermination to the repentance , Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 2003,843 p.

First and Second world war

the Great War: 1914-1918 , Gallimard, coll “Ideas”, Paris, 1968,384 p.
Pétain , Beech, Paris, 1987,789 p.
Questions about IIe World war , Casterman, coll “20th century”, Paris, 1993,191 p.
Brothers of distinct (Malcolm Brown, Rémy Cazals, Olaf Mueller; Marc Ferro, to dir.), Perrin, Paris, 2005,268 p. - 8 p. of pl.
They were seven men in war; Parallel history , Robert Laffont, Paris, 2007,365 p.

History and Cinema

Analysis of film, analyzes companies: a new source for the History , Hatchet, coll “Pedagogies for our time”, Paris, 1974,135 p.
Cinema and Histoire , Denoël and Gonthier, coll “Library Mediations”, Paris, 1977,168p. - p. of pl
Film and history , Editions of the EHESS, coll “History and his representations”, Paris, 1984,161 p. - 8 p. of pl.
the Cinema, a vision of the history , the Oak, Paris, 2003,163 p.

On the writing and the role of the history

How one tells the history with the children: through the whole world , Payot, coll “At the origins of our time”, Paris, 1981,316 p.
History under monitoring: science and conscience of the history , Calmann-Levy, coll “Intelligence of the history”, Paris, 1985,216 p.
That to transmit to our children (with Philippe Jammet and Danièle Guilbert), the Threshold, Paris, 2000,224 p.
Taboos of the history , the Nile, Paris, 2002,151 p.

See too

Soviétologie

External bonds

Conference with Marc Ferro, “the resentment and the fractures of contemporary France” Centers studies and international research of the University of Montreal, April 4th, 2007.
“With naked voice”, series of five talks between Marc Ferro and Benjamin Stora, France Culture, from December 11th to 15th 2006.

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