Françoise Thom

While showing the radical novelty of Bolshevism, and Stalin’s techniques for enforcing his tyranny, « The Backward march, a look at Soviet and Russian history » written by Françoise Thom highlights the continuities of Russian history and its constants (ideology, power practices, place and influence of the empire, foreign policy concepts and methods, use of propaganda). The opening of the USSR archives and their abundance has enriched our knowledge of this once closed world and makes certain keys to understanding indispensable: they will also facilitate the approach to post-communist Russia and its difficult past.

Speech by Françoise Thom, winner of the Prix François Guizot-Institut de France 2022 for her book « La marche à rebours ; regards sur l’histoire soviétique et russe » (Éd. Sorbonne Université Presses), at the award ceremony […]

Only the prospect of the collapse of its arms industry as a result of Western sanctions can shake the Putin regime, whose sole raison d’être is the exercise of power. The arsenal of sanctions deployed […]

Il faut conditionner la levée des sanctions au retrait des forces d’occupation russe en Ukraine suggère Françoise Thom. Poutine a une mentalité de chef de bande. Ses objectifs étaient clairs depuis 20 ans pour qui […]

« The aggressor presented as a victim » – The historian Françoise Thom examines the speeches of Hitler, Molotov and Putin in order to show how similar their themes and reasoning. A dive into the totalitarian universe. […]