• Alain Besançon (25 April 1932 – 9 July 2023) was a French historian. He specialised in intellectual history and Russian politics. From 1965 to 1992 he...
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    upon this point. French critics wrote about the point. According to Alain Besançon, the tsarevich's murder by the tsar is a central scene of the Russian...
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  • Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1989, p. 88 Alain Besançon agrees in: The Soviet Syndrome, 1978, p. 20 Christine D. Tomei, Russian...
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    specific force, paving the way for a painting of contemporary history. Alain Besançon, a French historian, regards the painting exemplary for the connection...
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  • German writer. Dur Muhammad Baloch, 40, Pakistani boxer, heart attack. Alain Besançon, 91, French historian. Joe Campbell, 68, American football player (New...
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    whose purpose is to avoid encounters with realities. He agrees with Alain Besançon that the totalitarian society envisaged by George Orwell in Nineteen...
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    Gérald Antoine Jean Bæchler Marianne Bastid-Bruguière Pierre Bauchet Alain Besançon Jacques Boré Bernard Bourgeois Gabriel de Broglie Jean-Claude Casanova...
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    Benoît Rayski accused some intellectuals, including Stéphane Courtois, Alain Besançon, Ernst Nolte and Jean-François Revel, of wanting to confound the West...
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    François-Victor-Noury de l’Institut de France. Lucien Israël (author) (pref. Alain Besançon), Les dangers de l’euthanasie : entretiens avec Élisabeth Lévy / Lucien...
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    bois soviétique : description, rôle et fonctionnement, directed by Alain Besançon at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. She was then...
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