Annie Lacroix-Riz (born 1947) is a French academic Marxist historian specializing in France's relations with Germany and the United States from the

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to the

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, as well as World War II collaboration. A former student of the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and a pupil of

Pierre Vilar Pierre Vilar (3 May 1906, Frontignan – 7 August 2003, Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Saint-Palais) was a French historian specialized in the history of Catalonia and Hispanism. He is considered one of the most authoritative 20th-century ...

, she is a professor emeritus of contemporary history at the

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...

, now part of

Paris Cité University Paris Cité University () is a public research university located in Paris, France. It was created by decree on 20 March 2019, resulting from the merger of Paris Descartes (Paris V) and Paris Diderot (Paris VII) universities, established fol ...

. Lacroix-Riz is a founding member of the

Pole of Communist Revival in France The Pole of Communist Revival in France (, PRCF) is a French political party founded in January 2004. It was an internal tendency of the French Communist Party (PCF) that left the party, rejecting the PCF's "mutation" beginning in the early 1990s. ...

(PRCF), established in 2004.

Work

Her interests are the political, economic and social history of the

French Third Republic The French Third Republic (, sometimes written as ) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France durin ...

and

Vichy Government Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the defeat against ...

, the relations between the Vatican and the Reich as well as the strategies of the French elites before and after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. In her early works examining post-war reconstruction of France, Lacroix-Riz studied labor union tensions, investigating issues within the General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT), the role of French minister Ambroise Croizat on social labor reforms, and American trade unionist

Irving Brown Irving Brown (November 20, 1911 – February 10, 1989) was an American trade unionist and leader in the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and subsequently the AFL-CIO. Brown played a prominent role in Western Europe and Africa during the Cold ...

’s role in France. Subsequent works further probe American influence in Europe (for example in Sweden) and in the French colonies of North Africa and put into question the motives of the

Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $ in ) in economic recovery pr ...

. One of her primary theses is that profit-driven complicity of French industrial and financial institutions with Nazi Germany contributed to France's 1940 defeat,paving the path to

U.S The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

ascendancy in Europe. Lacroix-Riz’s writings on the 1930s and WWII, particularly regarding financial and industrial interests, terrorist group La Cagoule, her views on Synarchism and

Holodomor The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a mass famine in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–193 ...

have sparked mixed critical responses. On one hand, she is recognized for the detailed and comprehensive nature of her work, rooted in archival evidence. On the other hand, her work faces criticism of potential anti-capitalist bias, since she challenges traditional perspectives and conventional narratives.

Publications

Books

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Selected articles

* "Unitaires et Confédérés d'une réunification à l'autre (1934-1943)", ''Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Institut de recherches marxistes'', N15, 1983, 31–58. * * * * *
"Les comités d'organisation et l' Allemagne: tentative d'évaluation"
(2003/4) * *

Online conferences

Quatre
conférences novembre 2010, dans le cadre d'une "Université pour tous" à la médiathèque Louis Aragon de Bagneux (92) : "Les débuts de l'intégration européenne, des années 1920 à l'après deuxième guerre mondiale".
Présentation
de l'historienne et de son travail, 2011, Les Films de l'An 2.
Intervention sur
Radio m Drôme

article de montpellier-journal.fr, 2010.
Emission
Comaguer, radio galère, 2011. Voir auss

de radio Comaguer.
Conférence
à propos de son livre ''Le Choix de la défaite'', invitée par le parti Solidarité et progrès, 2006.
Conférence mp3
en ligne tenue le 4 octobre 2008 à la maison de l’éducation populaire de Lille. Document enregistré et diffusé par le média du tiers secteur audiovisuel Passerellesud.org
"Les concepts historiques tabous de l’historiographie dominante", Vidéo
du Chspm, 2009.
Intervention
sur Polémix et la Voix Off sur la « Synarchie».

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lacroix-Riz, Annie 1947 births Living people 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians Historians of Vichy France French historians of World War II French historiographers French women historians Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University alumni Academic staff of Paris Diderot University Holodomor deniers