Stéphane Courtois
Stéphane Courtois (born November 25, 1947 in Dreux ) is a French historian .
Life
Courtois was a militant Maoist in the early 1970s . He is Directeur de recherche (Research Director or CNRS) at the “Groupe d'Etude et d'Observation de la Démocratie” at the University of Paris X in Nanterre and, since 1982, co-founder and editor of the scientific journal Communisme .
Courtois became known in 1997 as the editor of the Black Book of Communism , which was also published in German a year later.
In 2004, the Black Book of Communism 2 appeared in Germany , which deals in detail with other countries formerly under Soviet hegemony in the Eastern Bloc .
He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal Totalitarismus und Demokratie .
Works
- Publisher: Dictionnaire du communisme. Larousse, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-03-583782-0 .
- German translation: The handbook of communism. History, ideas, minds. Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05260-3 .
Web links
Commons : Stéphane Courtois - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Stéphane Courtois in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Stéphane Courtois at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Stéphane Courtois in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christophe Bourseiller , Les Maoïstes. La folle histoire des gardes rouges français , Paris, Plon, 1996, p. 277.
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SURNAME | Courtois, Stéphane |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dreux |