Nicolas Werth

Nicolas Werth born 1950 in Paris is a French historian Werth is a scholar of communist studies He is the son of Alexander Werth a Russian born British journalist and writer who lived in the USSR during World War II Nicolas Werth has taught abroad Minsk New York Moscow Shanghai He served as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Moscow during perestroika from 1985 to 1989 Werth joined the CNRS in 1989 where he devoted himself to History of the Soviet Union His research has focused among other things on state violence and social resistance in the years 19201930 He wrote the chapters dedicated to the USSR in The Black Book of Communism He was the historic consultant for the French television documentary film Staline le tyran rouge broadcast on M6 in 2007 and is coauthor with Patrick Rotman and François Aymé of Gulag The Story broadcast on Arte in 2019 Source Article Nicolas Werth from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30