Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.

Life and career

Ferro worked on early twentieth-century

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, specialising in the history of

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and the

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, as well as the history of

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. His

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mother was murdered during the

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. He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the

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. He was a co-director of the French review ''

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'' and co-editor of the ''

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.'' He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of the

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and the

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and on the representation of history in cinema. Ferro died from

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complications in

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in April 2021, at the age of 96.

Honours and awards

Honours

* Knight of the

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* Officier of the National Order of Merit * Officer of the

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* Knight of the

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...

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 M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

Bordeaux Montaigne University Bordeaux Montaigne University (French language, French: ''Université Bordeaux Montaigne''; formerly ''Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3'') is a Lists of universities in France, public university in Pessac, France, approximately 8 kilom ...

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

Bibliography

*''La Révolution de 1917'', Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967 nglish 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 nglish 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 at

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) nglish 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) nglish translation: ''The Great War, 1914-1918'', 1972*''Cinéma et Histoire'', Paris, Denoël, 1976 (réédité chez Gallimard en 1993) nglish 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 ''The Use and Abuse of History, Or, How the Past is Taught'' is a 1981 book by Marc Ferro about the interaction between politics and historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic ...

'', 1981 *''Comment on raconte l'histoire aux enfants à travers le monde'', Paris,

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, 1983 *''L'Histoire sous surveillance : science et conscience de l'histoire'', Paris,

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, 1987 (reedited in 1993 et 1994) *''Les Origines de la Perestroïka'', Paris, Ramsay, 1990 *''Nicolas II'',

, Paris, 1991 *''Questions sur la Deuxième Guerre mondiale'', Paris,

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, 1993 *''Histoire des colonisations'', des conquêtes aux indépendances (XIIIe-XXe siècle), Paris, Le Seuil, 1994 *''L'internationale'', Paris, Editions Noêsis, 1996 *''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,

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, 2003.paperback 2010 () *''Histoire de France, France Loisirs'', 2002 () *''Le choc de l'Islam'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2003 *''Le Cinéma, une vision de l'histoire'', Paris,

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, 2003 *''Les Tabous de L'Histoire'', Pocket vol. 11949,

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, 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'', (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

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