Stéphane Courtois

Stéphane Courtois (2009)

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.

personal data
SURNAME	Courtois, Stéphane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dreux

[1] Christophe Bourseiller , Les Maoïstes. La folle histoire des gardes rouges français , Paris, Plon, 1996, p. 277.