Background
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was born on July 6, 1929, in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She is the daughter of Georges Zourabichvili and Nathalie von Pelken. Her brother Nicolas Zourabichvili is a composer.
2016
Paris, France
(L-R) Permanent Secretary of "Academie Francaise" Helene Carrere d'Encausse, Nana Mouskouri, Ambassador of Armenia in Paris, Viguen Tchitetchian, Charles Aznavour and President of Cesar's Academy Alain Terzian attend Nana Mouskouri gives the Greek Prize "Nikos Gatsos 2016" to Charles Aznavour at Embassy of Greece on December 19, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France
(L-R) Politician Rachida Dati and Permanent Secretary of 'Academie Francaise' Helene Carrere d'Encausse attend King Mohammed VI of Morocco and French President Francois Hollande present the project to create a Cultural Center of Morocco in "Saint-Germain des Pres". Held at Institut du Monde Arabe on February 17, 2016, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
Paris, France
(L-R) Permanent Secretary of Academie Francaise Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Academician Dominique Bona attend writer Marc Lambron receives "L'Epee d'Academicien" of "Academie Francaise" on April 6, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
Paris, France
(L-R) Academicians Erik Orsenna, Permanent Secretary of 'Academie Francaise' Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Marc Lambron attend Marc Lambron becomes a Member of the Academie Francaise: Official Ceremony on April 14, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2017
8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, Helene Carrere d'Encausse and her husband Louis Carrere d'Encausse attend the Private View of "Icones de l'Art Moderne, la Collection Chtchoukine" at Fondation Louis Vuitton on February 20, 2017 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2017
55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France
Helene Carrere D'Encausse arrives at the Elysee Palace prior to the handover ceremony for New French President Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace on May 14, 2017, in Paris, France. Photo by Stephane Cardinale
2019
Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, Helene Carrere d'Encausse attend the Installation of Muriel Mayette-Holtz elected Member of the "Free section" of The "Academie des Beaux-Arts" in the chair previously occupied by Maurice Bejart. Held at "Academie des Beaux-Arts" on May 15, 2019, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2019
Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, Helene Carrere d'Encausse, and Muriel Mayette-Holtz attend the Installation of Muriel Mayette-Holtz elected Member of the "Free section" of The "Academie des Beaux-Arts" in the chair previously occupied by Maurice Bejart. Held at Academie des Beaux-Arts on May 15, 2019, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
Paris, France
(L-R) Permanent Secretary of "Academie Francaise" Helene Carrere d'Encausse, Nana Mouskouri, Ambassador of Armenia in Paris, Viguen Tchitetchian, Charles Aznavour and President of Cesar's Academy Alain Terzian attend Nana Mouskouri gives the Greek Prize "Nikos Gatsos 2016" to Charles Aznavour at Embassy of Greece on December 19, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France
(L-R) Politician Rachida Dati and Permanent Secretary of 'Academie Francaise' Helene Carrere d'Encausse attend King Mohammed VI of Morocco and French President Francois Hollande present the project to create a Cultural Center of Morocco in "Saint-Germain des Pres". Held at Institut du Monde Arabe on February 17, 2016, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
Paris, France
(L-R) Permanent Secretary of Academie Francaise Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Academician Dominique Bona attend writer Marc Lambron receives "L'Epee d'Academicien" of "Academie Francaise" on April 6, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
Paris, France
(L-R) Academicians Erik Orsenna, Permanent Secretary of 'Academie Francaise' Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Marc Lambron attend Marc Lambron becomes a Member of the Academie Francaise: Official Ceremony on April 14, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
19 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France
(L-R) Haim Korsia, Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Luc Ferry attend the Scopus gala photocall at Pavillon Vendome on May 18, 2016, in Paris, France. Photo by Aurelien Meunier
2016
Amboise, France
Gonzague Saint Bris, Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Singer Renaud attend the Diner Party at 'Chateau du Clos Lucebefore 21th 'La Foret Des Livres' Book Fair on August 27, 2016 in Amboise, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
Loches, France
Helene Carrere d'Encausse and Renaud attends 21th 'La Foret des Livres' at Chanceaux-Pres Loches on August 28, 2016 in Loches, France. Photo by Laurent Viteur
2017
23 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of 'Academie Francaise' Helene Carrere d'Encausse (L) and German President Joachim Gauck (R) visit l'Institut de France on January 26, 2017 in Paris, France. Photo by Luc Castel
2017
8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, Helene Carrere d'Encausse and her husband Louis Carrere d'Encausse attend the Private View of "Icones de l'Art Moderne, la Collection Chtchoukine" at Fondation Louis Vuitton on February 20, 2017 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2017
55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France
Helene Carrere D'Encausse arrives at the Elysee Palace prior to the handover ceremony for New French President Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace on May 14, 2017, in Paris, France. Photo by Stephane Cardinale
2019
Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, Helene Carrere d'Encausse attend the Installation of Muriel Mayette-Holtz elected Member of the "Free section" of The "Academie des Beaux-Arts" in the chair previously occupied by Maurice Bejart. Held at "Academie des Beaux-Arts" on May 15, 2019, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2019
Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, Helene Carrere d'Encausse, and Muriel Mayette-Holtz attend the Installation of Muriel Mayette-Holtz elected Member of the "Free section" of The "Academie des Beaux-Arts" in the chair previously occupied by Maurice Bejart. Held at Academie des Beaux-Arts on May 15, 2019, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
Paris, France
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris.
27 Rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris, France
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is a graduate of the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as the Sciences Po).
(The history of modern Central Asia is of growing importan...)
The history of modern Central Asia is of growing importance because of the Muslim role in Soviet society and the influence of the Muslim population on the Soviet Union's relations with other Muslim countries. Focusing on the state of Bukhara, this book deals with the conflict between the central authority of the Russian empire and its Muslim regions before, during, and immediately after the Russian Revolution. After the Crimean War, a Muslim reformist movement developed among the Bukharan intelligentsia who, in time, threw in their lot with the Bolshevik revolutionaries. With the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, however, the Muslim reform movement was both absorbed and contained by it. This rich account of the politics and administration of the state of Bukhara and its religious life fills an important gap in our understanding of the Muslim question in the Soviet Union today.
https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Russian-Empire-Revolution-Comparative/dp/0520065042/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Islam+and+the+Russian+Empire%3A+Reform+and+Revolution+in+Central+Asia&qid=1597393134&s=books&sr=1-1
1966
(Today, as we confront the social and political upheaval t...)
Today, as we confront the social and political upheaval that has led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a deeper understanding of Russia's turbulent past is more essential than ever. In this fascinating book, Russian history unfolds as a "continuous history of political murder" as the author, Helene Carrere d'Encausse, focuses on this dramatic theme from its origins in Kievan Rus to the threshold of the Gorbachev era.
https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Syndrome-Thousand-Political-Murder/dp/0841912939/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Russian+Syndrome%3A+One+Thousand+Years+of+Political+Murder&qid=1597396295&s=books&sr=1-1
1988
(Shows how the rise of nationalism in the former republics...)
Shows how the rise of nationalism in the former republics reduced the Communist Party's power and led inevitably to the revolution of 1991.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Soviet-Empire-Triumph-Nations/dp/0465098126/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+End+of+the+Soviet+Empire%3A+The+Triumph+of+the+Nations&qid=1597396384&s=books&sr=1-1
1991
(Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who died in 1924 at the age of fif...)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who died in 1924 at the age of fifty-four went through two distinct periods in this political life. He spent twenty years in exile building the Communist Party and dreaming of the revolution, which eventually took place in his absence. But only eight months later, he gained total power; within four years he had reshaped an empire, created a global revolutionary party, and established a regime that would last seventy years. How can we explain the conquest and preservation of power by a party that originated with only a few thousand members in such a vast country? How can the longevity and global influence of Leninism be explained? In spite of the horrifying death toll of Lenin's regime, one must admit to his political genius. Of the heads of state in the twentieth century who saw themselves as saviours of their people either from Communism (Hitler, Franco, Ho Chi Minh) or in its name (Stalin, Mao, Salazar) only Lenin did not fall from his pedestal as soon as death had reduced him to silence.
https://www.amazon.com/Lenin-Biography-Helene-Carrere-DEncausse/dp/0841914125/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Lenin+Helene+Carrere+D%27Encausse&qid=1597396887&s=books&sr=1-2
1998
educator historian politician author
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was born on July 6, 1929, in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She is the daughter of Georges Zourabichvili and Nathalie von Pelken. Her brother Nicolas Zourabichvili is a composer.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris. She is a graduate of the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as the Sciences Po).
From 1984 to 1987 Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was the president of Radio Sorbonne-Radio France. She was a member of the Commission des Sages for the reform of the Nationality Code from 1986 to 1987. During 1992, she held the post of adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, thus participating in the formulation of a policy of assistance for the democratization of the former communist states.
Elected to the European Parliament in June 1994, she was vice-chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense. Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is a vice-president of the French diplomatic archives commission. She also chaired the Human Sciences Commission at the National Book Center from 1993 to 1996. She was appointed in 1998 as a member of the National Council for a New Development of the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2004, she became Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Statistical Observatory on Migration and Integration (Observatoire statistique de l’immigration et de l’intégration).
In 1990 she was elected to seat number fourteen out of forty of the Académie Française. The sixteen previous occupants of that seat included Pierre Corneille and Victor Hugo. In 1999 Carrère d’Encausse was named president of the academy, a position called permanent secretary by the French. Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was a professor of Russian history and Russian politics in Sorbonne and Institute d'Estudes politiques de Paris.
Carrère d’Encausse is the author of many volumes, primarily of Russian history. Big Brother: The Soviet Union and Soviet Europe appeared in translation in 1987 and is divided into three sections. In the first, Carrère d’Encausse explains how Stalin’s Soviet Union gained control in Eastern Europe following World War II. She then documents the ultimate futility of the resistance by the people of those countries during the thirty years following Stalin’s death and concludes with an analysis of Gorbachev’s reforms.
The Russian Syndrome: One Thousand Years of Political Murder is an essay of the part political murder played in Russian politics from the conquest of Kyiv in 882 to 1988 and the Twenty-eighth Congress of the Communist Party. Originally published in French in 1988, it addresses the reign of Ivan the IV, known as Ivan the Terrible, who killed his son Dimitri in a fit of rage. The End of the Soviet Empire: The Triumph of the Nations is a four-part volume in which Carrère d’Encausse presents her views on the causes of the Soviet Empire’s demise.
(The history of modern Central Asia is of growing importan...)
1966(Today, as we confront the social and political upheaval t...)
1988(Shows how the rise of nationalism in the former republics...)
1991(Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who died in 1924 at the age of fif...)
1998Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was elected to the Académie française on December 13, 1990. She is an associate member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and of the Romanian Academy.
In 1952 Hélène Carrère d'Encausse married Louis Carrère. They have three children: one son, two daughters.