Marc Ferro (; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Author of several books, including The Use and Abuse of History.
Life and career Marc Ferro was born in Paris to a Greek-Italian father and a Russian-born Jewish mother (née Firdmann (Oudia)), who died in Auschwitz in June 1943.Arrêté du 23 avril 2013 portant apposition de la mention « Mort en déportation » sur les actes et jugements déclaratifs de décès, JORF No. 0162, 14 juillet 2013, p. 11826, texte 23, sur Légifrance: "Ferro, née Firdmann (Oudia) le 4 avril 1897 à Novogradvolinsk (Russie), décédée le 28 juin 1943 à Auschwitz (Pologne)."French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, John Wiley & Sons (2010), p. 240
Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.
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.
Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96.Mort de l'historien Marc Ferro, spécialiste de l'histoire du XXe siècle, à 96 ans
Honours and awards Honours 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
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 Bordeaux Montaigne University University of Chile.
Bibliography La Révolution de 1917, Paris, Aubier Éditions Montaigne, 1967 [English 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 Albin Michel) [English 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) [English translation: The Great War, 1914-1918, 1972]translated by Nicole Stone. Routledge; 2nd edition, 2001, 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, 1981 [English translation: The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught] reedited in 1986 by Payot, 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, 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, Robert Laffont, 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, 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 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
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