Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro (born 1924 in Paris) is a French historian. He has worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.

He is Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.

He has also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of the Nazis, Lenin and the Russian revolution and on the representation of history in cinema[1].

Bibliography

• La Révolution de 1917, Paris, Aubier, 1967 (réédité en 1976, puis en 1997 chez Éditions Albin Michel) )[English translation: October 1917 : a social history of the Russian revolution , translated by Norman Stone, 1980]
• La Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, Paris, Gallimard, 1968, réédité 1987)[English translation: The Great War, 1914-1918, translated by Nicole Stone, 1972]
• 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, 1983 (reedited in 1986 by Gallimard)
• 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, Noesis, 1996
• Les sociétés malades du progrès, Paris, Plon, 1999
• 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
• Histoire de France, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2003
• 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

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