Françoise Thom | |
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Born | 1951
Strasbourg, France |
Occupation | Historian |
Spouse |
Georges Mamoulia (
m. 2005) |
Parent | René Thom |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Paris-Sorbonne University |
Thesis | De l'URSS à la Russie (1929-2011). Politique intérieure, politique étrangère, les imbrications (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Olivier Forcade |
Other advisors | Alain Besançon |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Contemporary history |
Sub-discipline | Sovietology |
Institutions | Paris-Sorbonne University |
Françoise Thom (born 1951) is a French historian and Sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist in post-communist Russia, she is the author of works of political analysis on the country and its leaders.
Françoise Thom was born in Strasbourg, 1951. [1] Her parents are René Thom, a mathematician known for his theory of catastrophes and winner of the Fields Medal, and of Suzanne Helmlinger. Françoise has two siblings, Elizabeth and Christian. [2]
Thom has a degree in Russian. [3]
She lived for three years in the Soviet Union, then taught Russian in secondary schools in Ferney-Voltaire and Calais. She is a research associate at the Institut français de polémologie. In 1983, she defended a thesis entitled La Langue de bois soviétique : description, rôle et fonctionnement, directed by Alain Besançon at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. [4]
She was then appointed lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2011, she presented a dissertation entitled De l'URSS à la Russie (1929-2011). Politique intérieure, politique étrangère, les imbrications, for which Olivier Forcade was the supervisor, at the Paris-Sorbonne University. [5]
She published her thesis in a book entitled, La Langue de bois, in 1987. [6] [7] She also published L'École des barbares, with Isabelle Stal, in 1985, Le Moment Gorbatchev (1989), [8] and Les Fins du communisme (1994).
In 1998, she co-authored, with Jean Foyer, Jacques Julliard, and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, the book, La Pensée unique - Le vrai procès. She collected, translated, prefaced and annotated the memoirs and analyses of Sergo Beria, son of Lavrentiy Beria, published in 1999 under the title Beria, mon père : au cœur du pouvoir stalinien. [9] In 2013, she finally published a biography of Beria, under the title Beria. le Janus du Kremlin. [10] In 2018, she published Comprendre le poutinisme (Understanding Putinism), in which she recalls Vladimir Putin's former membership in the KGB and studies the "propaganda of Russian power". [3]
In April 2005, she married historian Georges Mamoulia.[ citation needed]
Françoise Thom | |
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![]() | |
Born | 1951
Strasbourg, France |
Occupation | Historian |
Spouse |
Georges Mamoulia (
m. 2005) |
Parent | René Thom |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Paris-Sorbonne University |
Thesis | De l'URSS à la Russie (1929-2011). Politique intérieure, politique étrangère, les imbrications (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Olivier Forcade |
Other advisors | Alain Besançon |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Contemporary history |
Sub-discipline | Sovietology |
Institutions | Paris-Sorbonne University |
Françoise Thom (born 1951) is a French historian and Sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist in post-communist Russia, she is the author of works of political analysis on the country and its leaders.
Françoise Thom was born in Strasbourg, 1951. [1] Her parents are René Thom, a mathematician known for his theory of catastrophes and winner of the Fields Medal, and of Suzanne Helmlinger. Françoise has two siblings, Elizabeth and Christian. [2]
Thom has a degree in Russian. [3]
She lived for three years in the Soviet Union, then taught Russian in secondary schools in Ferney-Voltaire and Calais. She is a research associate at the Institut français de polémologie. In 1983, she defended a thesis entitled La Langue de bois soviétique : description, rôle et fonctionnement, directed by Alain Besançon at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. [4]
She was then appointed lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2011, she presented a dissertation entitled De l'URSS à la Russie (1929-2011). Politique intérieure, politique étrangère, les imbrications, for which Olivier Forcade was the supervisor, at the Paris-Sorbonne University. [5]
She published her thesis in a book entitled, La Langue de bois, in 1987. [6] [7] She also published L'École des barbares, with Isabelle Stal, in 1985, Le Moment Gorbatchev (1989), [8] and Les Fins du communisme (1994).
In 1998, she co-authored, with Jean Foyer, Jacques Julliard, and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, the book, La Pensée unique - Le vrai procès. She collected, translated, prefaced and annotated the memoirs and analyses of Sergo Beria, son of Lavrentiy Beria, published in 1999 under the title Beria, mon père : au cœur du pouvoir stalinien. [9] In 2013, she finally published a biography of Beria, under the title Beria. le Janus du Kremlin. [10] In 2018, she published Comprendre le poutinisme (Understanding Putinism), in which she recalls Vladimir Putin's former membership in the KGB and studies the "propaganda of Russian power". [3]
In April 2005, she married historian Georges Mamoulia.[ citation needed]