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Intro
French historian
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Female
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Birth:
9 September 1926(Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Death:
26 August 1995(Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Annie Kriegel, née Annie Becker (born 9 September 1926, Paris; died August 26, 1995, Paris), was a French historian, a leading expert on communist studies and the history of Communism, a cofounder (1982) of the academic journal Communisme (with Stéphane Courtois), and a columnist for Le Figaro.
As a student, Kriegel was a member of the French Communist Party but changed her political views after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and became an outspoken anticommunist.
Her brother was the historian Jean-Jacques Becker, and she was married to Arthur Kriegel, a brother of Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont. The Association d'études et de recherches en sciences sociales Annie Kriegel is named in her honour.
Selected works
- 1920. Le Congrès de Tours. Naissance du PCF, Paris, Julliard, 1964.
- Les Communistes français : essai d'ethnographie politique, Paris, Seuil, 1968.
- Les Grands Procès dans les systèmes communistes, Paris, Gallimard, 1972.
- Communismes au miroir français, Paris, Gallimard, 1974.
- Ce que j’ai cru comprendre (mémoires), Paris, Robert Laffont, 1991, 842 p.