Nicolas Werth
Werth in 2012
Born (1950-09-15) 15 September 1950 (age 73)
Paris, France
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
OrganizationPresident of Mémorial-France association[1]
Writing career
Occupation
  • Historian
  • writer
  • researcher
LanguageFrench, Russian, English
Genreessay, research, documentary
Notable worksCannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag;
Les révolutions russes (In French)

Nicolas Werth (born 1950 in Paris) is a French historian.[2]

Biography

Werth is a scholar of communist studies.[3] He is the son of Alexander Werth, a Russian born British journalist and writer who lived in the USSR during World War II.[4]

Work

Nicolas Werth has taught abroad (Minsk, New York, Moscow, Shanghai). He served as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Moscow during perestroika from 1985 to 1989. Werth joined the CNRS in 1989, where he devoted himself to History of the Soviet Union.[5] His research has focused, among other things, on state violence and social resistance in the years 1920–1930.[6]

He wrote the chapters dedicated to the USSR in The Black Book of Communism.[7] He was the historic consultant for the French television documentary film, Staline: le tyran rouge, broadcast on M6 in 2007, and is co-author with Patrick Rotman and François Aymé of Gulag, The Story, broadcast on Arte in 2019.[8][9]

He is President of Mémorial-France, the French branch of the Memorial society, since 2020.[10]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ "À propos de Mémorial France". Association Mémorial France (in French). Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  2. ^ Sales, Véronique. "La patrie russe de Nicolas Werth". www.lhistoire.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "NICOLAS WERTH". Encyclopædia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  4. ^ Georgesco, Florent (2019-02-16). "Nicolas Werth : " En Russie aujourd'hui, on en est à dire que le goulag a contribué à la mise en valeur des richesses de la Sibérie "". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  5. ^ "Nicolas WERTH | Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent". www.ihtp.cnrs.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  6. ^ "Nicolas Werth face aux spectres de l'URSS". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2020-01-18. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  7. ^ "Why We Fought". National Review. 2006-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  8. ^ Translated from La Croix (2020-02-11). "The Gulag is a submerged continent". Archyde. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  9. ^ Constant, Alain (2020-02-11). "Un long voyage dans l'enfer du goulag, sur Arte". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  10. ^ "« Pour Poutine, l'hostilité de l'étranger est le moteur principal de l'histoire russe » : entretien avec l'historien Nicolas Werth". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  11. ^ Werth, Nicolas (2017). Être communiste en URSS sous Staline (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-274845-5.
  12. ^ Hardy, Jeffrey S. "Hardy on Werth, 'Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag' | H-Russia | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  13. ^ Graziosi, Andrea (2008-12-28). "Nicolas Werth, L'ivrogne et la marchande de fleurs". Cahiers du monde russe. Russie - Empire russe - Union soviétique et États indépendants. 49 (49/4): 748–756. doi:10.4000/monderusse.6942. ISSN 1252-6576.
  14. ^ "La route de la Kolyma : voyage sur les traces du goulag". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  15. ^ Barenberg, Alan (2018-11-15). "Luba Jurgenson et Nicolas Werth, Le Goulag : Témoignages et archives. Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, S.A.S., 2017, 1120 pages". The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (19). doi:10.4000/pipss.4431. ISSN 1769-7069.
  16. ^ Lebrun, Jean. "La Révolution russe de février 1917". www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  17. ^ Vincent, Sébastien. ""Le cimetière de l'espérance": retour sur "le malheur soviétique"". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  18. ^ "Nicolas Werth: «Poutine a mis vingt ans à créer le système actuel» - Le Temps" (in French). 2022-12-09. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2024-01-01.

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