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Stéphane Courtois

1947 - Today

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Stéphane Courtois (born 25 November 1947) is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Roche-sur-Yon, and director of a collection specialized in the history of communist movements and communist states. The Black Book of Communism, a book edited by Courtois, has been translated into numerous languages, sold millions of copies, and is considered one of the most influential and controversial books written about the history of communism in the 20th century and state socialist regimes. In the first chapter of the book, Courtois argued that Communism and Nazism are similar totalitarian systems and that Communism was responsible for the murder of around 100 million people in the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stéphane Courtois has received more than 114,450 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Stéphane Courtois is the 244th most popular historian (down from 225th in 2019), the 3,167th most popular biography from France (up from 3,168th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Historian.

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  • 21

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  • 5.71

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Stéphane Courtois ranks 244 out of 339Before him are Philipp Spitta, Karl Otfried Müller, Charles Rollin, Gustave Schlumberger, Jean Delumeau, and Wilhelm von Bode. After him are John Foxe, Tony Judt, Johannes Aventinus, Guo Pu, Egon Friedell, and Mahmoud Mohammed Taha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Stéphane Courtois ranks 262Before him are Takeo Takahashi, Michel Berger, Orlan, Sammy Hagar, Marcello Semeraro, and Jennifer Warnes. After him are Hitoshi Igarashi, Ann Hui, Gunnar Hansen, Stefan Persson, Bogdan Tanjević, and Pauline Moran.

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In France

Among people born in France, Stéphane Courtois ranks 3,167 out of 6,011Before him are Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763), Alain Chartier (1392), Jean Richepin (1849), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Jean Delumeau (1923), and Jean Leray (1906). After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Yves Meyer (1939), Alain Barrière (1935), Gérard Darmon (1948), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), and Max Aub (1909).

Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Stéphane Courtois ranks 36Before him are Joseph de Guignes (1721), Paul Veyne (1930), Marc Ferro (1924), Charles Rollin (1661), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), and Jean Delumeau (1923). After him are Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), Émile Mâle (1862), George Cœdès (1886), Emmanuel Todd (1951), Maxime Rodinson (1915), and Joseph-François Michaud (1767).