Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
Hélène Carrère called Carrère d'Encausse , born Hélène Zourabichvili (born July 6, 1929 in Paris ) is a French historian .
Life
Hélène Carrère - daughter of Georges Zourabichvili (Surabishvili) and Nathalie von Pelken - studied from 1952 at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP) and at the Sorbonne. In 1963 she received her doctorate and in 1976 she received her Docteur d´État. She became Professor of History at the Sorbonne and then at the IEP (1969). She is director of studies at the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP). She also taught for several years at the Collège d´Europe in Bruges.
Since 1999 she has headed the Académie française as Secrétaire perpétuel , of which she became a member in 1990. Hélène Carrère is the first woman in this management position in the history of the institution. The historian has specialized in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union . In her 1978 book L´empire éclaté , she predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2008 she received the Lomonosov gold medal . In 2011 she was awarded the Star Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. She holds honorary doctorates from the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Bucharest, the University of Laval and the University of Montreal. Carrère is a member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, honorary member of the Georgian and Romanian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994, where she was Vice-President of the Commission for Foreign Affairs and Defense. She was visiting professor at various universities in North America and Japan and was on the board of directors of the East-West Institute for Security Studies. She received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor , is an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite , commander of the Palmes académiques, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold.
In 1978 she received the Prix Aujourd'hui for L'Empire éclaté , the Prix Louise Weiss in 1987, the Prix Comenius in 1992 and the Prix des Ambassadeurs in 1997 for her biography of Nicholas II.
In 1986/87 she was on the advisory body for the reform of French citizenship law and, from 1984 to 1987, President of Radio Sorbonne-Radio France. In 1992 she was an advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Eastern Europe. She was Vice President of the Archives diplomatiques françaises.
In 1952 she married Louis Carrère, with whom she has three children. Her son Emmanuel Carrère (* 1957) is an author and screenwriter, her daughter Marina (* 1961) is a doctor and journalist. One cousin is the Franco-Georgian politician, former Foreign Minister and President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili .
Originally stateless, she became a French citizen in 1950.
Fonts
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L'empire éclaté . Flammarion, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-08-064090-9 .
- English translation: Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt, Newsweek Books (New York, NY), 1979.
- German: cracks in the red empire. The nationality problem in the Soviet Union. Pabel-Moewig, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-8118-6603-6 .
- Nicholas II. The drama of the last tsar . Translated from the French by Jochen Grube. Zsolnay, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-552-04896-0 . (French original Nicolas II, La transition interrompue , Fayard 1996)
- Lenin . Piper, Munich / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-492-24046-1 . (French original: Lénine , Fayard 1998)
- Réforme et révolution chez les musulmans de l'Empire russe, Armand Colin, 1963
- Le Marxisme et l'Asie (avec Stuart R. Schram), 1853–1964, Armand Colin 1966
- Central Asia, a century of Russian rule, Columbia University Press 1967, reprinted 1990
- with Stuart R. Schram: L'URSS et la Chine devant la révolution des sociétés pré-industrielles, Armand Colin 1969
- L'Union soviétique de Lénine à Staline, 2 volumes, Éd. Richelieu, 1972
- Volume 1: Lénine: la révolution et le pouvoir
- Volume 2: Staline: l'ordre par la terreur, new edition Flammarion 1979
- English translation: History of the Soviet Union, 1917–1953, Volume 1: Lenin: Revolution and Power, Volume 2: Stalin: Order through Terror, Longman (New York, NY), 1981, 1982.
- La Politique soviétique au Moyen-Orient, 1955–1975, Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris 1975
- Le Pouvoir confisqué: gouvernants et gouvernés en URSS, Flammarion 1980
- English translation: Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works, Harper and Row (New York, NY), 1982.
- Le Grand Frère: l'union soviétique et l'Europe soviétisée, Flammarion 1982
- English translation: Big Brother: The Soviet Union and Soviet Europe, Holmes and Meier (New York, NY), 1987.
- La déstalinisation commence, Ed. Complexe, Brussels 1985
- Ni paix ni guerre: le nouvel empire soviétique, ou, du bon usage de la détente, Flammarion 1986
- Le Grand Défi: bolcheviks et nations, 1917-1930, Flammarion 1987
- English translation: The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917–1930, Holmes and Meier (New York, NY), 1992.
- Le Malheur russe: essai sur le meurtre politique, Fayard 1988
- English translation: The Russian Syndrome: One Thousand Years of Political Murder, Holmes and Meier (New York, NY), 1992.
- La Gloire des Nations ou la Fin de l´Empire Soviétique, Fayard 1990
- English translation: The End of the Soviet Empire: The Triumph of the Nations, Basic Books (New York, NY), 1993.
- The Russian Syndrome: One Thousand Years of Political Murder, Holmes and Meier 1993
- Victorieuse Russie, Fayard 1992
- L'URSS, de la Révolution à la mort de Staline, Le Seuil 1993
- La Russie inachevée, Fayard 2000
- Catherine II, Fayard 2002
- L'Impératrice et l'abbé: un duel littéraire inédit, Fayard 2003
- L'Empire d'Eurasie, Fayard 2005
Web links
- Literature by and about Hélène Carrère d'Encausse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Biography at Munzinger (beginning free of charge)
- biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carrère d'Encausse, Hélène |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carrère, Hélène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |