Françoise Thom
Born1951
Strasbourg, France
OccupationHistorian
Spouse
Georges Mamoulia
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(m. 2005)​
ParentRené Thom
Academic background
Alma materParis-Sorbonne University
ThesisDe l'URSS à la Russie (1929-2011). Politique intérieure, politique étrangère, les imbrications (2011)
Doctoral advisorOlivier Forcade
Other advisorsAlain Besançon
Academic work
DisciplineContemporary history
Sub-disciplineSovietology
InstitutionsParis-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.

Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

Personal life

In April 2005, she married historian Georges Mamoulia.

Selected works

Books

  • L'École des barbares, with Isabelle Stal, Paris, Julliard, 1985
  • La langue de bois, Paris, Julliard, 1987
  • Les fins du communisme, Paris, Critérion, 1994
  • Le Moment Gorbatchev, Paris, Hachette, 1989
  • Beria : Le Janus du Kremlin, Paris, Cerf, 2013 924 p. ISBN 978-2204101585
  • Géopolitique de la Russie, with Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, Paris, PUF, collection "Que sais-je?", 2016
  • Comprendre le poutinisme, Paris/Perpignan, Desclée De Brouwer, 2018, 240 p. ISBN 978-2-220-09426-7
  • La Marche à rebours. Regards sur l’histoire soviétique et russe, Paris, Sorbonne Université Presses, collection "Mondes contemporains", 2021, 724 p. ISBN 979-10-231-0686-2
  • Poutine ou l'obsession de la puissance, Litos, 2022, 248 p.

Articles

  • "Les Occidentaux devant la fin de l’Union soviétique", Commentaire, no 118, February 2007, pp. 373-382
  • "Le parti russe en France", Commentaire, February 2016, pp. 432-436

Editor

  • Beria, Sergo, Beria, mon père : au cœur du pouvoir stalinien, Plon/Critérion, 1999, 448 p. ISBN 9782259190169

References

  1. ↑ "FRANÇOISE THOM - Rencontres et débats". rencontres-et-debats-autrement.org. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  2. ↑ Who's who in France. J. Lafitte. 1997. p. 1634. ISBN 978-2-85784-035-0. OCLC 1604694.
  3. 1 2 Mandraud, Isabelle (21 October 2019). "Françoise Thom, la procureure de Poutine". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Thom, Françoise (1983). La Langue de bois soviétique: description, rôle et fonctionnement (Thesis) (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Mme Françoise Thom Mamulia - De l'URSS à la Russie (1929-2011). Politique intérieure, politique étrangère, les imbrications. [HDR]". lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr (in French). 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.
  6. ↑ Tinguy, Anne de (1989). "Basile Kerblay. La Russie de Gorbatchev ; Françoise Thom. Le moment Gorbatchev". Politique étrangère (in French). 54 (4): 788–790. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  7. ↑ Lenclud, Gérard (1987). "Parler bois. A propos d'un ouvrage de Françoise Thom". Études rurales (in French). 107 (1): 257–68. doi:10.3406/rural.1987.3217. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Gourg, Marianne (1993). "Françoise Thom, le Moment Gorbatchev,1991". La Revue russe (in French). 5 (1): 101–104. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  9. ↑ Chesnais, Jean-Claude (1999). "Beria, mon père. Au coeur du pouvoir stalinien, éd. Françoise Thom". Politique étrangère (in French). 64 (3): 752. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  10. ↑ Paoli, Paul-François (20 November 2013). "Les mystères Beria". LEFIGARO (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2023.
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