Lilly Marcou (born 1936) is a French historian of Romanian origin specialising in the history of communism. [1]
Lilly Marcou graduated in literature from the University of Bucharest. In 1986, she obtained a doctorate in history from the Paris-Sorbonne University. [2]
She pursued her career at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) at Paris Institute of Political Studies. From 1975 to 1981, she led a research group on the international communist movement. From 1982 to 1988, she taught at the Sciences Po. [2]
From 1993, she devoted her research to the study of Soviet archives from the Stalin era in Moscow. [3]
In April 2007, she was named Knight of the Legion of Honor. [4]