Annie Lacroix-Riz | |
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![]() Annie Lacroix-Riz in 2005 | |
Born | 1947 |
Citizenship | French |
Occupation | Historian |
Academic background | |
Education | École normale supérieure de jeunes filles Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Paris Diderot University |
Annie Lacroix-Riz [1] (born 1947) is a French academic Marxist historian specializing in France's relations with Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s,as well as World War II collaboration.
A former student of the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and a pupil of Pierre Vilar,she is a professor emeritus of contemporary history at the Paris Diderot University,now part of Paris CitéUniversity.
Lacroix-Riz is a founding member of the Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF),established in 2004.
Her interests are the political,economic and social history of the French Third Republic and Vichy Government, [2] [3] [4] the relations between the Vatican and the Reich [5] [6] [7] as well as the strategies of the French elites before and after the Second World War. [8] [9] [10]
In her early works examining post-war reconstruction of France,Lacroix-Riz studied labor union tensions,investigating issues within the General Confederation of Labour (French:Confédération Générale du Travail,CGT), [11] [12] the role of French minister Ambroise Croizat on social labor reforms, [13] and American trade unionist Irving Brown’s role in France. Subsequent works further probe American influence in Europe (for example in Sweden) [14] and in the French colonies of North Africa [15] [16] and put into question the motives of the Marshall Plan. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] One of her primary theses is that profit-driven complicity of French industrial and financial institutions with Nazi Germany contributed to France's 1940 defeat, [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] paving the path to U.S ascendancy in Europe. [24] [17]
Lacroix-Riz’s writings on the 1930s and WWII,particularly regarding financial and industrial interests,terrorist group La Cagoule,her views on Synarchism and Holodomor [28] have sparked mixed critical responses. On one hand,she is recognized for the detailed and comprehensive nature of her work,rooted in archival evidence. [2] [26] [4] On the other hand,her work faces criticism of potential anti-capitalist bias,since she challenges traditional perspectives and conventional narratives. [29] [4] [30]
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