Nicolas Werth (born 1950 in

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) is a French

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Biography

Werth is a scholar of

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

studies. He is the son of

Alexander Werth Alexander Werth (4 February 1901, St Petersburg – 5 March 1969, Paris) was a Russian-born, naturalized British writer, journalist, and war correspondent. Biography Werth fled with his father and grandfather to the United Kingdom in the wak ...

, a Russian born British journalist and writer who lived in the USSR during

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Work

Nicolas Werth has taught abroad (Minsk, New York, Moscow, Shanghai). He served as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Moscow during

perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

from 1985 to 1989. Werth joined the CNRS in 1989, where he devoted himself to

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. His research has focused, among other things, on state violence and social resistance in the years 1920–1930. He wrote the chapters dedicated to the USSR in ''

The Black Book of Communism ''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression'' is a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by co ...

''. 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 ''

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, The Story'', broadcast on

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in 2019.

Selected Bibliography

* ''Être communiste en URSS sous Staline.'' Paris: Gallimard, 1981. * ''La Vie quotidienne des paysans russes de la Révolution à la collectivisation (1917-1939).'' Paris:

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, 1984. * ''Rapports secrets soviétiques. La société russe dans les rapports confidentiels, 1921-1991.'' With Gaël Moullec. Paris: Gallimard, 1995. * ''Histoire de l’Union soviétique de Lénine à Staline.'' Paris:

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, 1995. * ''Histoire de l’Union soviétique de Khrouchtchev à Gorbatchev.'' Paris: PUF, 1998. * ''1917 : La Russie en Révolution.'' coll. "

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" (nº 327), Paris: Gallimard, 1998. * "Un État contre son peuple. Violences, répressions, terreurs en URSS de 1917 à 1953," in

Stéphane Courtois Stéphane Courtois (born 25 November 1947) is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Ro ...

(ed.), '' Le Livre noir du communisme.'' Paris:

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, 1998, pp. 45–313. * ''Histoire de l'Union soviétique. De l'Empire russe à la Communauté des États indépendants, 1900-1991.'' 6th Edition. Paris: PUF, 2008. * ''Les Procès de Moscou (1936-1938).'' Éditions Complexe, nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, 2006, * . * ''L'Ivrogne et la marchande de fleurs : Autopsie d'un meurtre de masse, 1937-1938.'' Paris: Tallandier, 2009. * ''La Terreur et le désarroi. Staline et son système.'' Paris: Perrin, 2007. * ''L'Ivrogne et la marchande de fleurs : Autopsie d'un meurtre de masse, 1937–1938.'' Paris: Tallandier, 2009. * ''L'État soviétique contre les paysans: Rapport secrets de la police politique (Tcheka, GPU, NKVD) 1918-1939.'' With Alexis Berelowitch. Paris: Tallandier, 2011. *''La route de la Kolyma''. Paris: Editions Belin, 2012. *''Le Goulag. Témoignages et archives''. Paris:

, collection Bouquins, 2017 (in collaboration with Luba Jurgenson). *''Les révolutions russes''. Paris:

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, 2017. *''Le cimetière de l'espérance. Essais sur l'histoire de l'Union soviétique, 1917-1991''. Paris: Perrin, 2019. *''Les grandes famines soviétiques''. Paris: PUF, 2020.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Werth, Nicolas Living people 1950 births Historians of communism 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians French people of Russian descent School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences faculty ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists French male writers Writers from Paris Cultural attachés