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Шаблон:Infobox academic Françoise Thom (born 1951) is a French historian and Sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist in post-communist Russia, she is the author of works of political analysis on the country and its leaders.

Early life and education

Françoise Thom was born in Strasbourg, 1951.[1] Her parents are René Thom, a mathematician known for his theory of catastrophes and winner of the Fields Medal, and of Suzanne Helmlinger. Françoise has two siblings, Elizabeth and Christian.[2]

Thom has a degree in Russian.[3]

Career

She lived for three years in the Soviet Union, then taught Russian in secondary schools in Ferney-Voltaire and Calais. She is a research associate at the Institut français de polémologie. In 1983, she defended a thesis entitled Шаблон:Lang, directed by Alain Besançon at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.[4]

She was then appointed lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2011, she presented a dissertation entitled Шаблон:Lang, for which Шаблон:Ill was the supervisor, at the Paris-Sorbonne University.[5]

She published her thesis in a book entitled, Шаблон:Lang, in 1987.[6][7] She also published Шаблон:Lang, with Isabelle Stal, in 1985, Шаблон:Lang (1989),[8] and Шаблон:Lang (1994).

In 1998, she co-authored, with Jean Foyer, Jacques Julliard, and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, the book, La Pensée unique - Le vrai procès. She collected, translated, prefaced and annotated the memoirs and analyses of Sergo Beria, son of Lavrentiy Beria, published in 1999 under the title Шаблон:Lang.[9] In 2013, she finally published a biography of Beria, under the title Шаблон:Lang.[10] In 2018, she published Comprendre le poutinisme (Understanding Putinism), in which she recalls Vladimir Putin's former membership in the KGB and studies the "propaganda of Russian power".[3]

Personal life

In April 2005, she married historian Georges Mamoulia.Шаблон:Cn

Selected works

Books

  • L'École des barbares, with Isabelle Stal, Paris, Julliard, 1985
  • La langue de bois, Paris, Julliard, 1987
  • Les fins du communisme, Paris, Critérion, 1994
  • Le Moment Gorbatchev, Paris, Hachette, 1989
  • Beria : Le Janus du Kremlin, Paris, Cerf, 2013 924 p. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Géopolitique de la Russie, with Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, Paris, PUF, collection "Que sais-je?", 2016
  • Comprendre le poutinisme, Paris/Perpignan, Desclée De Brouwer, 2018, 240 p. Шаблон:ISBN
  • La Marche à rebours. Regards sur l’histoire soviétique et russe, Paris, Sorbonne Université Presses, collection "Mondes contemporains", 2021, 724 p. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Poutine ou l'obsession de la puissance, Litos, 2022, 248 p.

Articles

  • "Les Occidentaux devant la fin de l’Union soviétique", Commentaire, no 118, February 2007, pp. 373-382
  • "Le parti russe en France", Commentaire, February 2016, pp. 432-436

Editor

  • Beria, Sergo, Beria, mon père : au cœur du pouvoir stalinien, Plon/Critérion, 1999, 448 p. Шаблон:ISBN

References

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