About
A Research Director Emeritus at the CNRS, he recently published *A State Against Its People: From Lenin to Putin* (Les Belles Lettres, 2025). This text is based on the article that appeared in *L’Histoire* No. 308, April 2006.
Most viewed articles
Rethinking the “Great Terror”
The U.S.S.R. in the Thirties
In Le Débat (2002/5 No 122)
“What Can We Rebuild On?” The Turmoil of Writing History in Post-Soviet Russia
- By Nicolas Werth,
- Interviewed on the 7th june 2015 by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues,
- Brigitte Gaïti
- et al.
In Politix (2015/2 No 110)
The “Little Show Trials” in the USSR During the Great Terror (1937-1938)
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2005/2 No 86)
Stalinism in Power
A Historiographical Perspective
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2001/1 No 69)
Sovietology in General, and Russian Archives in Particular
In Le Débat (1993/5 No 77)
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Jean-Paul Depretto (6 June 1952 – 12 January 2023)
In Cahiers d'histoire russe et est-européenne (2024/1 Vol. 65)
“What Can We Rebuild On?” The Turmoil of Writing History in Post-Soviet Russia
- By Nicolas Werth,
- Interviewed on the 7th june 2015 by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues,
- Brigitte Gaïti
- et al.
In Politix (2015/2 No 110)
Revisiting the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2014/1 No 121)
Soviet Famines, Ukrainian Famine
In Le Débat (2010/5 No 162)
A Review of Stalinist Violence
In Le Débat (2010/5 No 162)
The Great Terror of 1937-1938
A Deep Historiographic Renewal
- By Nicolas Werth
- and Alain Blum
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2010/3 No 107)
The “Little Show Trials” in the USSR During the Great Terror (1937-1938)
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2005/2 No 86)
Rethinking the “Great Terror”
The U.S.S.R. in the Thirties
In Le Débat (2002/5 No 122)
The OGPU in 1924
Closeup of an Institution in Crisis
In Cahiers du monde russe (2001/2 Vol 22)
Defeatist and Apocalyptic Rumors in the 1920s and 1930s in the Former Soviet Union (USSR)
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2001/3 No 71)
Stalinism in Power
A Historiographical Perspective
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2001/1 No 69)
« Le rôle de la police politique en Union soviétique, 1918-1936 » colloque Paris, MSH 25-27 mai 2000
Letter from Nikolaï Bukharin to Stalin, December 10 1937
In Le Débat (1999/5 No 107)
Sovietology in General, and Russian Archives in Particular
In Le Débat (1993/5 No 77)
Renaissance and Dilemmas of the Labor Movement in the Soviet Union
In Le Débat (1991/5 No 67)
Revolution in Soviet Sociology — The Birth of the Opinion Poll
In Le Débat (1989/3 No 55)