Background
Ferro, Marc Roger was born on December 24, 1924 in Paris. Son of Jacques and Nelly (Firman) Ferro.
historian teacher university professor
Ferro, Marc Roger was born on December 24, 1924 in Paris. Son of Jacques and Nelly (Firman) Ferro.
Student, University Grenoble, France, 1944. Student, University Sorbonne, 1944. Doctor honoris causa, University Moscow.
Docteur es Lettres, 1976.
He has worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as the history of cinema. He is Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is a co-director of the French review Annales and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.
He has 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.
Active Military, 1944.
Married Vonnie Blondel, February 7, 1948.