{"id":10608,"date":"2022-10-25T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/fr\/?page_id=10608"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:08:48","slug":"prix-guizot-institut-de-france-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/prix-guizot\/prix-guizot-institut-de-france-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Prix Guizot-Institut de France 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 4 October 2022 at the Institut de France, the Prix Fran\u00e7ois Guizot-<\/strong>Institut de France was awarded to Fran\u00e7oise Thom for her book :<\/strong>
La Marche \u00e0 rebours, Regards sur l'Histoire sovi\u00e9tique et russe, Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 Presses.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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What was the Soviet regime, which disappeared in 1991-1992 in the great earthquake of the twentieth century, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today? Was it a political UFO, something hitherto unknown in the human order, as experienced by contemporaries who retained a free spirit? Or a pure product of Russian history, with all its burdens and ruts? Because of the secrecy surrounding the Kremlin, the Soviet regime has long seemed like a black box.
The declassification of numerous archives on the Communist world from the Gorbachev period onwards has changed all that. This book bears the mark of the thirst for knowledge that has seized those who, for many years, had been reduced to studying the USSR by interpreting rare clues. It deals with the most diverse aspects of the history of the USSR: the originality of a foreign policy entirely possessed by an ideological project, at once utopian and utterly cynical, yet supremely effective; the role of the state security services; the use of crises in the strengthening of power; the shock of the real war, the German attack of June 1941, in a state that had been waging an offensive against the whole world from the outset; the impact of the clan struggle within the ruling core, an essential factor in the regime's evolution; the problem of succession in a de-institutionalised State\/Party.
Paradoxically, the evolution of post-communist Russia, which is the subject of the third part of this book, has shed new light on the history of the USSR and the Russia of the Tsars. It reveals continuities that had been masked by the radical novelty of Lenin's regime. It is now possible to think about Russia over the long term - and this is the only approach that will give us a better understanding of a world so different from our own, whose shadow continues to extend over Europe.
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Fran\u00e7oise Thom, who holds an agr\u00e9gation in Russian, is an emeritus lecturer (HDR) in contemporary history at Sorbonne University.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A specialist on Russia, her publications include Le Moment Gorbatchev (Hachette Pluriel, 1989), Les Fins du communisme (Crit\u00e9rion, 1994), a critical edition of Sergo Beria's memoirs (Plon\/Criterion, 1999) and \u00abLa Russie d'Eltsine \u00e0 Poutine\u00bb, a postface to Nicholas V.'s Histoire de la Russie.
Riasanovsky (Robert Laffont, 2014)<\/em>
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Xavier Darcos, Michel Zinc, Fran\u00e7oise Thom, St\u00e9phane Coste and Patrice Gueniffey <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Read the speech by Xavier Darcos, Chancellor of the Institut de France.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Read the speech by St\u00e9phane Coste, a descendant of Fran\u00e7ois Guizot and president of the Fran\u00e7ois Guizot Association.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Read the speech by Patrice Gueniffey, vice-president of the jury<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Read the speech by Fran\u00e7oise Thom, winner of the 2022 Guizot-Institut de France Prize.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le 4 octobre 2022 \u00e0 l\u2019Institut de France, le Prix Fran\u00e7ois Guizot-Institut de France a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cern\u00e9 \u00e0 Fran\u00e7oise Thom pour son ouvrage :La Marche \u00e0 rebours, Regards sur l’Histoire sovi\u00e9tique et russe, Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 Presses. Que fut vraiment le r\u00e9gime sovi\u00e9tique, disparu en 1991-1992, dans le grand s\u00e9isme du XXe si\u00e8cle, dont les r\u00e9pliques […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9678,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12477,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10608\/revisions\/12477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}