Françoise Thom

Historian, emeritus lecturer at the University of Paris Sorbonne

Studies of classical letters, spent 4 years in the USSR in 1973-8, agrégée in Russian, teaches the history of the USSR and international relations at Paris Sorbonne.

Works

Beria, le Janus du Kremlin, Editions du Cerf, 2013 Comprendre le poutinisme, Desclée de Brouwer, 2018 A paraître en juin 2021 La Marche à rebours, Sorbonne Université Presses

37 publications on Desk Russie English

September 06, 2023	The Second Front
July 27, 2023	Russia: the end of Consensus
April 24, 2023	Sanctions: Useless, Really?
Februray 12, 2023	Russia: the Impossible “Union Sacrée”
January 17, 2023	How to Move from the Russian World to the Russian State: Building an Alternative to the Apocalypse
August 18, 2022	A Slippery Slope
July 16, 2022	Putin: the Phase of Self-destruction
June 17, 2022	Why the Putin System Carries war Like a Cloud Carries a Storm
June 14, 2022	The Rhetoric of the Aggressor
May 20, 2022	The Other Russian Offensive
May 20, 2022	The special orthodoxy of Pope Francis
May 06, 2022	Reveling in Transgression
April 20, 2022	Melancholic reflections on the French elections
April 08, 2022	Russian Ideologues Aim to Liquidate the Ukrainian Nation
April 02, 2022	Istanbul Talks: What Does Russia Want?
March 25, 2022	The lessons of an end of reign: Stalin 1952-3, Putin 2022
March 18, 2022	Alternative History Against History: the Case of Vladimir Putin
March 11, 2022	The Post-war World Seen from Russia
March 02, 2022	Putin or the Passion for Evil
Februray 26, 2022	French Kremlinophilia: an Incurable Disease?
Februray 11, 2022	How to Train Europe: the Kremlin’s Exploitation of the Ukrainian Crisis
January 28, 2022	Putin: Flirting With Armageddon
December 30, 2021	What Does the Russian Ultimatum to the West Mean?
December 15, 2021	The West under the Gun: how to Deal with a Blackmailer
December 10, 2021	The Boomerang of Obscurantism: the Case of Covid
November 13, 2021	The Migration Crisis: the Other Side of the Hybrid war Against Europe
November 12, 2021	The Return of Utopia to Power: the Turning Point of Putin’s Regime
October 22, 2021	The Destruction of the Soul in Putin’s Russia
October 08, 2021	The “Energy Partnership” With Russia: Lessons from the Past, Dangers for the Future
September 24, 2021	Nordstream-2, an Economic Project, did you Say?
September 08, 2021	The Consequences of the American Withdrawal from Afghanistan as Seen from Russia: the Impact in Europe, the Fate of NATO
August 21, 2021	A dr Strangelove in the Kremlin?
July 16, 2021	Russia: Facing the Afghan Wasp Nest
July 06, 2021	Deciphering the European Policy of the Kremlin
July 04, 2021	Putin and his Courtiers: a Cavalier Relationship With History
June 16, 2021	Why Stalin Refused to Believe in a German Attack?
June 06, 2021	Putin’s Setbacks and the Fight for his Succession