Annie Kriegel

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Annie Kriegel , née Becker, (born September 9, 1926 in Paris ; † August 26, 1995 in Paris) was a French historian, university lecturer and publicist.

Life

Annie Becker, who grew up in the 11th arrondissement , began to be politically active in the Resistance in 1942 . As a young woman, she was an active member of the Parti communiste français . Among other things, she was active in the trade union resistance organization Main d'Œuvre Immigrée . At the time of the liberation, she was a student at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles , a predecessor of the École normal supérieure open to women . She was involved in the training of young French communists and held a number of party functions from 1948 to 1954. In connection with the de-Stalinization , she increasingly distanced herself from the party. In 1956 she resigned and began to reorient herself politically. Among other things, as a journalist for the conservative Le Figaro and in several books, she dealt critically with Stalinism and the French communists.

Her research as well as her criticism of French communism received great attention. In 1982 she founded the scientific journal Communisme with Stéphane Courtois . A congress of historians and the scientific association "Association d'études et de recherches en sciences sociales Annie Kriegel", to which Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie , Pascal Cauchy , Patrick Guis and Arthur Kriegel belong, among others, is named after her .

Jean-Jacques Becker's sister married Guy Besse, and later Arthur Kriegel, brother of Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont , and had 5 children.

reception

Robert Paxton described her research in the New York Times as the most convincing work on the French CP.

Boris Souvarine rejected her interpretation of the Tours Congress, which took place in 1920 , criticizing her Stalinist past and what, according to Souvarine, was morally unacceptable attitude to the alleged medical conspiracy in 1953.

Publications (excerpt)

  • as editor: Le congrès de Tours (décembre 1920). Naissance du Parti Communiste Français. Édition critique des principaux débats. Paris, R. Julliard 1964.
  • Les Communistes français. Essai d'ethnographie politique (= Politique. Vol. 24, ZDB -ID 1126959-5 ). du Seuil, Paris 1968.
  • The Grands Procès dans les systèmes communistes. La Pédagogie infernale (= Collection idées. Vol. 256, ISSN  0530-8089 ). Gallimard, Paris 1972.
  • Communismes au miroir français. Temps, cultures et sociétés en France devant le communisme. Gallimard, Paris 1974.
  • Ce que j'ai cru comprendre. Robert Laffont, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-221-06536-0 (Memoirs).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Kriegel in L'Humanité from August 28, 1995
  2. ^ Robert Paxton: The French Communists . In: The New York Times . September 24, 1972 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 1, 2019]).
  3. ^ Boris Souvarine : Autour du Congrès de Tours. Champ libre, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-85184-128-9 , p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Kriegel, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Annie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1995
Place of death Paris