04-22-2021, 11:51 AM
Marc Ferro. French historian:
Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.
Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.
His Ukrainian-Jewish mother died during the Holocaust.[1]
He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He was a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.
He 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.[2]
Ferro died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in April 2021 at the age of 96.[3]
Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.
Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.
His Ukrainian-Jewish mother died during the Holocaust.[1]
He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He was a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.
He 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.[2]
Ferro died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in April 2021 at the age of 96.[3]
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officier of the National Order of Merit
- Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
- Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 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)
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.