Marc Ferro

Marc Ferro (French pronunciation: [maʁk fɛʁo]; 24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Author of several books, including The Use and Abuse of History.

Marc Ferro was born in Paris to a Greek-Italian father and a Russian-born Jewish mother (née Firdmann (Oudia)), who died in Auschwitz in June 1943.

Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.

He was Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He was a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.

He also directed and presented television documentaries on the rise of the Nazis, Lenin and the Russian revolution and on the representation of history in cinema.

Ferro died from COVID-19 complications in Maisons-Laffitte in April 2021, at the age of 96.

• Knight of the Legion of Honour
• Officier of the National Order of Merit
• Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
• Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

• City of Paris History Film Prize (France, 1975)
• Prize Clio (France, 1988)
• Europe's Historical Prize (1994)
• Peace Prize (France, 2007)
• Prize Saint-Simon (France, 2011)

• Moscow State University
• Bordeaux Montaigne University
• University of Chile.