Roger Portal

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Roger Portal (* 1906 ; † 1994 ) was a French historian of Eastern Europe. He was a professor at the University of Paris and director of the Institut d'études slaves .

He wrote books on Russian economic and industrial history (especially agricultural history of the Soviet Union), a biography of Peter the Great, and general history of Russia in modern times and the Slavs.

In Paris he formed a school of Russia historians, especially for the 20th century, who were in exchange with the Soviet Union. His students in Paris include René Girault (1929–1999), François-Xavier Coquin (* 1931), Marc Ferro (* 1924), Alain Besançon (* 1932), Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (* 1929), Jean-Louis Van Regemorter (1927–1999) and Moshe Lewin (1921–2010).

Fonts

  • The Slavs. From peoples to nations . Kindler's cultural history 1971
    • French original: Les Slaves. Peuples et Nations , Paris, Armand Colin, 1965
  • L'Oural au XVIIIe siècle: Étude d'histoire économique et sociale , Paris, Institut d'Études slaves, 1950.
  • La Russie industrial de 1881 à 1927 , Paris, Center de Documentation Universitaire (CDU), 1956.
  • The Industrialization of Russia , in: The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. 6 Cambridge 1966
  • La Russie industrial de 1880 à 1914 , Paris, CDU, 1960.
  • Pierre le Grand , Club Français du Livre, 1961
  • La Russie de 1894 à 1914 , Paris, CDU, 1962.
  • Les Nationalités slaves de 1871 à 1939 , Paris, CDU, 1962.
  • Published by Le Statut des paysans libérés du servage, 1861-1961 , recueil d´articles et de documents, Paris, Mouton, 1963.
  • L'Empire russe de 1762 à 1855 , Paris, Center de Documentation Universitaire, 1966.
  • Histoire des nations slaves , CDU-Sedes, 1970.
  • Russes et Ukrainiens , Flammarion, Questions d'histoire, 1970, 1992
  • (Editor): Histoire de la Russie. I - Le Déclin du servage, 1796-1855. II -La modernization inachevée, 1855-1900 , Hatier, 1971-1974.
  • Editor with Francois Bédarida The Socialist Parties of Europe: Great Britain, Russia, Balkan Countries , Ullstein 1975, in it by Portal: The Russian Socialism to the Revolution of 1917 , pp. 78-137

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institut d'études slaves
personal data
SURNAME Portal, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
DATE OF DEATH 1994