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Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

{{Short description|French historian (1929–2023)}}

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{{Infobox Politician

| name = Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

| image = Hélène Carrère d’Encausse par Claude Truong-Ngoc sept 2013.jpg

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| caption = Carrère d'Encausse in 2013

| office = Member of the European Parliament

| term_start = 1994

| term_end = 1999

| office2 = Member of the Académie Française

| term_start2 = 1990

| term_end2 = 2023

| suboffice2 = Perpetual Secretary

| subterm2 = 1999–2023

| birth_name = Hélène Zourabichvili

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|07|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|08|05|1929|07|06|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| party = Rally for the Republic

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| profession = Historian

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| spouse = {{marriage|Louis Carrère|1952}}

| children = 3, including Emmanuel and Marina

| father = {{ill|v=ib|Georges Zourabichvili|fr}}

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| awards = {{Indented plainlist|

  • Commander of the Order of the Arts and the Letters (1996)

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    | doctoral_advisor = {{hlist|Maxime Rodinson|{{ill|v=ib|Roger Portal|fr}}}}

    | discipline = History

    | sub_discipline = {{hlist|Modern history|Russian history}}

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    | notable_works = {{flatlist|

    • Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt
    • Russia Between Two Worlds}}

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    Hélène Carrère d'Encausse ({{IPA|fr|elɛn kaʁɛːʁ dɑ̃kos}}; née Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929 – 5 August 2023) was a French political historian who specialised in Russian history. From 1999 until her death in 2023, she served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Française, to which she was first elected in 1990.

    Carrère d'Encausse was a member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 1999, representing the Gaullist-conservative party RPR. She was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal and Grand Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 2008 and 2011, respectively. She was a cousin of Salome Zourabichvili, the current President of Georgia. In 2023 she was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award in Social Sciences.

    Early life, family and education

    Hélène Zourabichvili was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris to Georges Zourabichvili, a Georgian immigrant of an educated middle class background, and Nathalie von Pelken, a penniless descendant of Prussian barons and Russian counts.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=61–62, 78–79}}{{cite news |last1=Paoli |first1=Paul-François |title=Décès d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, première femme à la tête de l'Académie française |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/deces-d-helene-carrere-d-encausse-premiere-femme-a-la-tete-de-l-academie-francaise-20230805 |access-date=7 August 2023 |work=Le Figaro |date=5 August 2023}} Both parents arrived in Paris in 1925. Her mother had grown up in Tuscany, where the remainder of her Russian family fortune was lost through misinvestment.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=77–79}} Of her two maternal great-uncles, the Counts Komarovskii, Viktor was in 1905–1907 the vice-governor of Vyatka, notorious for defenestrating Muslims, and Georgii a veteran of the Second Boer War, Russian invasion of Manchuria and Russo-Japanese War executed in 1920 by the revolutionaries.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=22, 73–74}}{{citation |chapter=Братья КОМАРОВСКИЕ В.В. и Г.В. |title=Дворяне: книга памяти |publisher=Memorial |url=http://pkk.memo.ru/page%202/KNIGA/Ko.html}} Hélène's father, son of a Tiflis lawyer and a translator, had fled the Bolshevik takeover of the briefly independent Georgia in 1921 and studied philosophy and political economy in Berlin before re-joining his exiled family in Paris;{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=75–77}}{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse |url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Helene+Carrere+d+Encausse/0/19995.html |access-date=8 August 2023 |encyclopedia=Munzinger Archiv |language=de |date=2000}} he spoke five languages, as did his wife-to-be.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=79, 90}}{{cite news |last1=Catinchi |first1=Philippe-Jean |title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, first woman to head the Académie Française, has died |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2023/08/07/helene-carrere-d-encausse-first-woman-to-head-the-academie-francaise-has-died_6083167_15.html |access-date=8 August 2023 |work=Le Monde |date=7 August 2023}} In contrast to his family's fervent Georgian patriotism, however, he embraced Russian. Both families had been financially affected by the October Revolution, but unlike his brothers, Hélène's father did not have a successful career in France. He worked as a cab driver and a stall trader in provincial towns, while Hélène and her mother lived with distant relatives in Meudon, in an ethnic enclave of white Russian émigrés. By 1936 her father became a salesman at Vilmorin and the family moved to a small flat in Vanves. As a child, Hélène spoke Russian at home and only learned French at age four while on holiday in Brittany with an upper class French acquaintance of the family.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=75, 77–78, 85–87}}{{cite news |last=Schmid |first=Ulrich |title=Die Erste im Kreis der Unsterblichen |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/zum-tod-von-helene-carrere-d-encausse-19084807.html |access-date=8 August 2023 |newspaper=FAZ |language=de |date=6 August 2023}}

    The family moved to Bordeaux in the autumn of 1940, after the defeat of France and the establishment of the Vichy state. Hélène's father worked as an interpreter for the German occupying forces, initially at the car retailer Malleville et Pigeon.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=116}} After his dismissal in early 1942 he accepted the offer of one Mariaud, a black market dealer who married a Russian émigrée friend of his wife, to assist the German authorities with the confiscation of Jewish property.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=116–118}} He became an earnest collaborationiste on account of his anti-Communism and his belief in the rebirth of Europe through the joint forces of Nazism, Fascism and Christianity, influenced by his readings of Henri Béraud, Henri de Kérillis and Abel Bonnard. He would celebrate Christmas in the company of a Nazi officer.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=87–88, 117–118}} After the Liberation of France he shaved his moustache off to avoid recognition. He attended an interrogation with the Deuxième BureauThe Second Bureau continued its counterespionage activities under the Vichy regime, which included surveillance of collaborationists and the underworld. Like the other secret services, it was highly concerned with countering German influence despite the occupation, although it could no longer execute German spies after 1942. {{harvnb|Kitson|2008|p=103, 159–162}}. on 10 September 1944 and discussed the offer of a prison cell as a protection measure. He was abducted and disappeared on the same day.{{sfn|Carrère|2007|p=119–121}}{{cite web |last1=Tolstoï |first1=Grégoire |title=Immortelle Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, un Pont entre Orient et Occident |url=https://magazine.culturius.com/immortelle-helene-carrere-dencausse-un-pont-entre-orient-et-occident/ |publisher=Culturius |access-date=9 August 2023 |date=8 August 2023}} Carrère d'Encausse kept her father's Nazi past a secret and reacted negatively when her son Emmanuel disclosed it in his memoirs against her will.{{citation |last=Noiville |first=Florence |title=Emmanuel Carrère : « J'avais l'impression d'être enfermé » |journal=Le Monde |date=2007-03-01 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2007/03/01/emmanuel-carrere-j-avais-l-impression-d-etre-enferme_877621_3260.html}} “Il est, dit Emmanuel Carrère, “le secret de ma mère. ... Ce livre était une chose que ma mère m’avait demandé de ne pas faire et que j’estimais ne pas pouvoir ne pas faire”.”{{citation |last=Parker |first=Ian |title=Emmanuel Carrère Writes His Way Through a Breakdown |magazine=New Yorker |date=2022-07-04 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/11/emmanuel-carrere-writes-his-way-through-a-breakdown}} “By making all this public, Carrère opened a rift with his mother. “For more than two years, there were very, very cold relations,” he told me. In time, they reconciled, he said, “but ‘reconciled’ means never talking about it”.”

    After completing her secondary education at the 16th arrondissement's Lycée Molière,{{cite news |last1=Pommier |first1=Juliette |title=L'historienne Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, première femme élue à la tête de l'Académie française, est morte à l'âge de 94 ans |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/patrimoine/histoire/l-historienne-helene-carrere-d-encausse-premiere-femme-elue-a-la-tete-de-l-academie-francaise-est-morte-a-l-age-de-94-ans_5972390.html |access-date=9 August 2023 |agency=FranceInfro: Culture |date=5 August 2023}} Hélène studied history at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), graduating in 1952. She completed her Doctorat de troisième cycle in 1963{{cite thesis |last1=Carrere d'Encausse |first1=Hélène |title=Bukhara : de la réforme à la révolution : recherches sur le gadidisme à Bukhara |url=https://www.sudoc.fr/174563663 |website=SUDOC |date=1963}} and, in 1976, earned a Doctorat ès lettres from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1) with a dissertation supervised by Maxime Rodinson and Roger Portal.{{cite thesis |last1=Carrère d'Encausse |first1=Hélène |title=Bolchevisme et nations : des débats théoriques à la consolidation d'un État multinational, 1917–1929 |url=https://www.sudoc.fr/051735121 |website=SUDOC |date=1976}} She lectured in history at both Sciences Po and the Sorbonne.

    Russian scholarship

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    Due to her interest in her family history, the bulk of Carrère d'Encausse's work focused on Russia and the Soviet Union. She had over two dozen books published in French, many of which have been translated into English.{{cite web |title=Carrère d'Encausse, Hélène: Writings |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/carrere-dencausse-helene-1929 |website=encyclopedia.com}} Her 1978 work {{ill|L'Empire éclaté|fr}} (English version, Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt)Newsweek Books, 1979, {{ISBN|9780882252803}} predicted that the Soviet Union was destined to break up along the lines of its 15 constituent republics, although she was incorrect in foreseeing that demographic pressures from the Muslim-majority republics of Central Asia would be the trigger.{{cite journal |last1=Monluçon |first1=Anne-Marie |last2=Saignes |first2=Anna |last3=Salha |first3=Agathe |date=15 May 2012 |journal=Recherches & Travaux |title=La chute de l'URSS : une fin d'Empire |issue=80 |url=http://journals.openedition.org/recherchestravaux/498 |doi=10.4000/recherchestravaux.498}}

    In commenting on current Russian affairs, Carrère d'Encausse warned against applying Western yardsticks to Russian democracy and said she regretted the excessive demonisation of the government of Vladimir Putin.{{cite news |last1=de Villers |first1=Vincent Tremolet |title=Il ne faut pas juger le pouvoir autoritaire de Poutine à l'aune de nos seuls critères |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/2018/03/16/31002-20180316ARTFIG00308-il-ne-faut-pas-juger-le-pouvoir-autoritaire-de-poutine-a-l-aune-de-nos-seuls-criteres.php |access-date=27 October 2018 |work=Le Figaro |language=fr |date=16 March 2018}} Up until the final days before Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine she refused to countenance such an eventuality, although her opinion of Putin changed after the start of hostilities.{{cite news |last1=Mahler |first1=Thomas |title=Guerre en Ukraine : ces "experts" qui assuraient que Poutine n'attaquerait pas |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/idees-et-debats/guerre-en-ukraine-ces-experts-qui-assuraient-que-poutine-n-attaquerait-pas_2168639.html |access-date=7 August 2023 |work=L'Express |date=24 February 2022}}{{cite news |title=Vladimir Poutine espère que «l'héritage» d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse aidera à améliorer les relations Russie-France |url=https://www.europe1.fr/international/vladimir-poutine-espere-que-lheritage-dhelene-carrere-dencausse-aidera-a-ameliorer-les-relations-russie-france-4197600 |access-date=7 August 2023 |agency=Europe 1 with AFP |date=7 August 2023}} After she died, Putin paid homage to Carrère d'Encausse as "a great friend of our country" and expressed the hope that her legacy would help improve French–Russian relations.{{citation |title=Poutine espère que "l'héritage" d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse aidera aux relations Russie-France |date=2023-08-07 |publisher=TF1 Info |url=https://www.tf1info.fr/international/helene-carrere-d-encausse-poutine-espere-que-son-heritage-aidera-a-ameliorer-les-relations-russie-france-2265970.html}}

    European and domestic politics

    In 1992, Carrère d'Encausse was invited by Culture Minister Jack Lang to chair the committee he had founded to promote a "yes" vote in that year's referendum on the Maastricht Treaty,{{cite news |url=http://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2006-08-25/Portrait.-Helene-Carrere-d-Encausse.-Une-passionnee-lucide-_NP_-2006-08-25-270349 |title=Portrait : Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, une passionnée lucide |last1=Lesegretain |first1=Claire |work=La Croix |date=25 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807105034/https://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2006-08-25/Portrait.-Helene-Carrere-d-Encausse.-Une-passionnee-lucide-_NP_-2006-08-25-270349#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |archive-date=7 August 2023 |access-date=8 August 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }} a task that Lang said she performed with "fervour and enthusiasm".{{cite web |last1=Lang |first1=Jack |title=#helenecarreredencausse |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0nv4yoX243XhcRoUV8EbyWep6FQcAT6EcNKfdxMrBX6Ko7JxWDmUFK8MChgLvXfnAl&id=100044716021179 |website=Facebook |access-date=8 August 2023 |date=6 August 2023}}

    She was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 1994, representing Jacques Chirac's Gaullist-conservative party Rassemblement pour la République (RPR).{{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1994/04/28/la-preparation-des-elections-europeennes-mme-carrere-d-encausse-representera-le-rpr-derriere-m-baudis_3826435_1819218.html|title=La préparation des élections européennes Mme Carrère d'Encausse représentera le RPR derrière M. Baudis|newspaper=Le Monde.fr|language=fr|access-date=2 July 2018|date=28 April 1994}} During her time in the parliament from 1994 to 1999, she sat first with the European Democratic Alliance and later with the Union for Europe group, and she served as one of the vice-chairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and as a member of the delegation for relations with Russia.{{cite web |title=Fourth parliamentary term: Hélène CARRÈRE D'ENCAUSSE |date=6 July 1929 |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2011/HELENE_CARRERE+D'ENCAUSSE/history/4 |publisher=European Parliament |access-date=7 August 2023}}

    In 2005, she controversially identified polygamy as one of the causes of France's 2005 civil unrest. During an interview given to the Russian television channel NTV, she claimed: "Why can't their parents buy an apartment? It's clear why. Many of these Africans, I tell you, are polygamous. In an apartment, there are three or four wives and 25 children."{{cite news |last1=Millot |first1=Lorraine |title=Banlieues : «Beaucoup de ces Africains sont polygames...» selon Hélène Carrère d'Encausse |url=https://www.liberation.fr/evenement/2005/11/15/beaucoup-de-ces-africains-sont-polygames_539018/ |access-date=7 August 2023 |work=Libération |date=15 November 2005}}{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/international/europe/18france.html|title= Immigrant Polygamy Is a Factor in French Unrest, a Gaullist Says|last1= Sciolino|first1= Elaine|date= 18 November 2005|work=The New York Times|access-date=8 May 2020}} She also said that political correctness on French television was "a nightmare" and was almost comparable to media censorship in Russia.

    Académie Française

    Carrère d'Encausse was elected to seat 14 of the Académie Française on 13 December 1990, then the third woman, and was elected its {{ill|Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy|lt=Perpetual Secretary|fr|Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française|}} on 21 October 1999, making her the first woman to hold its top position. Her {{ill|academician's sword|fr|Épée d'académicien}} was made by the Franco-Georgian sculptor Goudji.{{cite web |title=Goudji et les épées d'académiciens |url=https://www.canalacademies.com/emissions/carrefour-des-arts/goudji-et-les-epees-dacademiciens |website=Canal Académies |access-date=8 August 2023 |date=8 June 2008}}

    As a member of the Academy, Carrère d'Encausse opposed both the feminisation of language, insisting that she be styled Madame le secrétaire perpétuel, and gender-inclusive language, describing the use of the interpunct to accommodate both genders (as in les auteur·rice·s) as "stupid" because of its impact on the musicality of a text.{{cite news |title=«Iel» dans le Robert : «un coup de pub» pour Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, de l'Académie française |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/iel-dans-le-robert-un-coup-de-pub-pour-helene-carrere-dencausse-de-lacademie-francaise-23-02-2022-OXEAWZUBVFCRFKG3KED4SHSSI4.php |access-date=7 August 2023 |work=Le Parisien |date=23 February 2022}} Her 2020 ruling that Covid be considered a feminine noun was also fiercely criticised, including by fellow members of the Academy.{{cite news |last1=Martel |first1=Frédéric |title=À l'Académie française on refuse toujours la féminisation des mots… sauf pour "la" Covid |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/a-l-academie-francaise-on-refuse-toujours-la-feminisation-des-mots-sauf-pour-la-covid-3052951 |access-date=7 August 2023 |agency=Radio France / France Culture |date=1 November 2020}}

    Personal life

    Born stateless, Hélène Zourabichvili acquired French citizenship in 1950.{{cite news |title=Mort de l'académicienne Hélène Carrère d'Encausse à l'âge de 94 ans |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/personnalite-carrere-d-encausse-idFRKBN2ZH047 |access-date=7 August 2023 |work=Reuters |date=6 August 2023}} In 1952 she married Louis Édouard Carrère d'Encausse, with whom she had three children: Emmanuel (born 1957), an author, screenwriter and director; Nathalie (1959), a lawyer; and Marina (1961), a physician and broadcast journalist.{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Thomas |title=Mort d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse à Paris : qui sont ses trois enfants ? |url=https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/mort-d-helene-carrere-d-encausse-a-paris-qui-sont-ses-trois-enfants_59937304.html |access-date=8 August 2023 |publisher=actu.fr |date=6 August 2023}} Her brother was the composer Nicolas Zourabichvili, and she was a cousin of Salome Zourabichvili, the current President of Georgia.{{cite news |title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, petite fille du Caucase devenue Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/comme-personne/helene-carrere-d-encausse-petite-fille-du-caucase-devenue-secretaire-perpetuel-de-l-academie-francaise-6973550 |access-date=8 August 2023 |agency=Radio France / France Culture |date=16 October 2020}}

    Carrère d'Encausse died in Paris on 5 August 2023, at age 94.{{cite news |title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, grande figure de la culture française, est morte |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/culture/helene-carrere-d-encausse-grande-figure-de-la-culture-francaise-est-morte-05-08-2023-2530700_3.php |access-date=6 August 2023 |newspaper=Le Point |date=5 August 2023}} President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would lead a national homage in her honour at the Hôtel des Invalides before the end of the summer.{{cite web |title=Disparition d'Hélène Carrère d'Encausse |url=https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2023/08/06/disparition-dhelene-carrere-dencausse |website=elysee.fr |access-date=8 August 2023 |date=6 August 2023}}

    Honours and awards

    =Honours=

    • Belgium: Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)[https://dialoguefrancorusse.com/non-classe/helene-carrere-dencausse/ Hélène Carrère d'Encausse] dialoguefrancorusse.com
    • Brazil: Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross{{cite web | last=Launet | first=Edouard | title=La croix et la vivandière | website=Libération | date=5 August 2023 | url=https://www.liberation.fr/livres/2012/10/24/la-croix-et-la-vivandiere_855665/ | language=fr | access-date=6 August 2023}}
    • France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2011){{cite web | title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse grand'croix de la Légion d'honneur | website=Franceinfo | date=10 December 2012 | url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/livres/helene-carrere-d-039-encausse-grand-039-croix-de-la-legion-d-039-honneur_3276117.html | language=fr | access-date=6 August 2023}}
    • France: Officer of the National Order of Merit{{cite web | title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse| website=Académie française | url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/les-immortels/helene-carrere-dencausse | language=fr | access-date=6 August 2023}}
    • France: Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
    • France: Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
    • Monaco: Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (November 1999)[http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/966e69337756d51ac12568c40037f872/bc72c48b62b4b92fc125683900365472!OpenDocument Sovereign Ordonnance n° 14.274 du 18 Novembre 1999 portant promotions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729152555/http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/966e69337756d51ac12568c40037f872/bc72c48b62b4b92fc125683900365472!OpenDocument |date=29 July 2020 }}. Legimonaco.mc (in French). Retrieved 8 May 2020.
    • Poland: Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
    • Russia: Medal of the Order of Honour (Russia){{cite web | last=Dorman | first=Veronika | title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, la compagne de Russie | website=Libération | date=5 August 2023 | url=https://www.liberation.fr/livres/2019/12/18/helene-carrere-d-encausse-la-compagne-de-russie_1769977/ | language=fr | access-date=6 August 2023}}

    =Awards=

    • Princess of Asturias Awards (2023; Spain){{cite web|url=https://www.fpa.es/es/premios-princesa-de-asturias/premiados/2023-helene-carrere-dencausse.html?texto=acta&especifica=0|title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales 2023|date=10 May 2023}}
    • {{ill|Grand Gold Medal of the Society for the Encouragement of Progress|lt=Grande médaille d'or|fr|Grande médaille d'or de la Société d'encouragement au progrès}} of the Society for the Encouragement of Progress (2020; France){{cite web|url=https://sep-france.org/gd_medaille.php|title=S.E.P : Société d'encouragement au Progrès}}
    • Lomonosov Gold Medal (2008; Russia){{cite web|url=https://www.ras.ru/win/db/award_dsc.asp?P=id-1.ln-en|title=Большая золотая медаль РАН имени М.В. Ломоносова}}
    • {{ill|Ivane Javakhishvili Medal|ka|ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის მედალი}} by Tbilisi State University (2003, Georgia) {{cite news |url=https://tabula.ge/ge/news/705110-istorikosi-elen-karer-dankosi-zurabishvili-94 |title=ისტორიკოსი ელენ კარერ დ'ანკოსი (ზურაბიშვილი) 94 წლის ასაკში გარდაიცვალა |language=ka |trans-title=Historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (Zourabichvili) died at the age of 94|work=tabula.ge |date=2023-08-08 |accessdate=2023-10-21 }}
    • {{ill|Prix du nouveau cercle de l'union|fr}} (2000; France){{cite web|url=http://foiredulivredebrive.net/p=4862/index.html|title=Foire du livre de Brive}}
    • {{ill|Prix des Ambassadeurs|fr}} (1997; France){{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1997/07/12/prix-litteraires_3789082_1819218.html|title=Prix littéraires|newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=12 July 1997}}
    • {{ill|Prize Paulée de Meursault|fr}} (1995; France)
    • Prix Comenius (1992; France)
    • {{ill|Prix Aujourd'hui|fr}} (1978; France){{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1978/11/08/le-prix-aujourd-hui-a-helene-carrere-d-encausse-pour-l-empire-eclate_2997033_1819218.html|title=Le prix Aujourd'hui à Hélène Carrère d'Encausse|newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=8 November 1978}}

    =Honorary degrees=

    • HEC Paris{{cite web|url=https://www.hec.edu/fr/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/carrere-d-encausse-helene|title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Docteure Honoris Causa|date=2004}}
    • Université catholique de Louvain{{cite web|url=https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/events/les-docteurs-honoris-causa-ucl-depuis-1951.html|title=Docteurs honoris causa depuis 1951}}
    • Université de Montréal
    • Université Laval{{cite web|url=https://www.ulaval.ca/notre-universite/prix-et-distinctions/doctorats-honoris-causa/helene-carrere-dencausse|title=Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Doctorat honoris causa ès lettres}}
    • University of Bucharest
    • Sofia University
    • Saint Joseph University{{cite web|url=https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/991852/lusj-honore-quatre-grandes-personnalites-pour-leurs-carrieres.html|title=L'USJ honore quatre grandes personnalités pour leurs carrières|date=18 June 2016}}

    Works

    Carrère d'Encausse's page on the website of the Académie Française provides the following list of her publications.

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    • 1966: Réforme et révolution chez les musulmans de l'Empire russe (Armand Colin), in English: Islam and the Russian Empire: Reform and Revolution in Central Asia (University of California Press, 1988)
    • 1966: Le Marxisme et l'Asie (with Stuart R. Schram), 1853–1964 (Armand Colin)
    • 1967: Central Asia, a century of Russian rule, Columbia Univ., réédition 1990 (Duke Univ. publication)
    • 1969: L'URSS et la Chine devant la révolution des sociétés pré-industrielles (avec Stuart R. Schram) (Armand Colin)
    • 1972: L'Union soviétique de Lénine à Staline (Éd. Richelieu), in English: History of the Soviet Union, 1917–1953. (Longman, New York 1981, 1982)
    • 1975: La Politique soviétique au Moyen-Orient, 1955–1975 (Presses de la F.N.S.P.)
    • 1978: {{ill|L'Empire éclaté|fr|lt=L'Empire éclaté : la révolte des nations en URSS}} (Flammarion), in English: Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt. (Newsweek Books, New York 1979)
    • 1979: Lénine, la Révolution et le Pouvoir (Flammarion), in English: Lenin: Revolution and Power. (Longman 1981)
    • 1979: Staline, l'ordre par la terreur (Flammarion), in English: Stalin: Order through Terror. (Longman 1982)
    • 1980: Le Pouvoir confisqué (Flammarion), in English: Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works. (Harper and Row, New York 1982)
    • 1982: Le Grand Frère (Flammarion), in English: Big Brother: The Soviet Union and Soviet Europe. (Holmes and Meier, New York 1987)
    • 1985: La déstalinisation commence (Complexe)
    • 1986: Ni paix ni guerre (Flammarion)
    • 1987: Le Grand Défi (Flammarion), in English: The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917–1930. (Holmes and Meier 1992)
    • 1988: Le Malheur russe (Fayard), in English: The Russian Syndrome: One Thousand Years of Political Murder (Holmes and Meier 1992)
    • 1990: La Gloire des Nations (Fayard), in English: The End of the Soviet Empire: The Triumph of the Nations. (Basic Books, New York 1993)
    • 1992: Victorieuse Russie (Fayard)
    • 1993: L'URSS, de la Révolution à la mort de Staline (Le Seuil)
    • 1996: Nicolas II, La transition interrompue (Fayard)
    • 1998: Lénine (Fayard)
    • 2000: La Russie inachevée (Fayard)
    • 2002: Catherine II (Fayard)
    • 2003: L'Impératrice et l'abbé : un duel littéraire inédit (Fayard)
    • 2005: L'Empire d'Eurasie (Fayard)
    • 2006: La Deuxième Mort de Staline
    • 2008: Alexandre II. Le printemps de la Russie (Fayard)
    • 2010: {{ill|La Russie entre deux mondes|fr}} (Fayard)
    • 2011: Des siècles d'immortalité. L'Académie française 1635-.... (Fayard)
    • 2013: Les Romanov – Une dynastie sous le règne du sang (Fayard)
    • 2015: Six années qui ont changé le monde 1985–1991 – La chute de l'empire soviétique (Fayard)
    • 2017: Le général de Gaulle et la Russie (Fayard)
    • 2019: La Russie et la France (Fayard)
    • 2021: Alexandra Kollontaï. La Walkyrie de la Révolution (Fayard)

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    References

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    Bibliography

    • {{citation |last=Carrère |first=Emmanuel |author-link=Emmanuel Carrère |title=Un roman russe |location=Paris |publisher=P.O.L (fr) |date=2007 |isbn=9782846821827}} (English translation: My Life as a Russian Novel: A Memoir, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010; {{isbn|9780805087550}})
    • {{citation |last=Kitson |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Kitson |title=The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=2008 |isbn=978-0-226-43893-1}}

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