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Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro è noto soprattutto per Apostrophes, Una belleza nueva, Les carnets d'Histoire parallèle e Histoire parallèle. Marc Ferro è nato il 24 dicembre 1924. Marc Ferro è morto/a il 21 aprile 2021 all’età di 96 anni.

Nascita: 24 dicembre 1924
Luogo di nascita: Paris, France
Morte: 21 aprile 2021 (96 anni)

Biografia

Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. His Ukrainian-Jewish mother was murdered during the Holocaust.

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.