Annie Lacroix-Riz (born 1947) is a French academic Marxist historian specializing in France's relations with Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, as well as World War II collaboration.

A former student of the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and a pupil of Pierre Vilar, she is a professor emeritus of contemporary history at the Paris Diderot University, now part of Paris Cité University.

Lacroix-Riz is a founding member of the Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF), established in 2004.

Work

Her research interests are on the political, economic and social history of the French Third Republic and the Vichy regime, the relations between the Vatican and the Reich, as well as the "strategies of the French elites" before and after the Second World War.

In her early works, examining post-war reconstruction of France, Lacroix-Riz studied labor union tensions, investigating issues within the General Confederation of Labour union (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT), the work of the communist minister of Labor and syndicalist Ambroise Croizat on social labor reforms, and American trade unionist Irving Brown’s involvement in the labor movement of France. Subsequent works by Lacroix-Riz probe American influence in Europe, as, for example in Sweden, and in the French colonies of North Africa, questioning the motives of the Marshall Plan.

One of her primary theses is that the profit-driven complicity of French industrial and financial institutions in the rise of Nazi Germany contributed to France's 1940 defeat, paving ultimately the path to U.S ascendancy in Europe.

Lacroix-Riz's writings on the 1930s and WWII, particularly regarding financial and industrial interests, the fascist group La Cagoule, her views on Synarchism and the 1930s famine in Ukrainian have been met with varying responses. On one hand, she is recognized for the detailed and comprehensive nature of her work, rooted in archival evidence. On the other hand, her work sometimes faces criticism for ostensible anti-capitalist bias, a criticism based on her challenges of traditional perspectives and conventional narratives.

Publications

Books

  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1983). La CGT de la libération à la scission de 1944–1947 (in French). Paris: Messidor. ISBN 978-2-209-05530-2. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1985). Le choix de Marianne (in French). Paris: Editions Messidor/Editions Sociales. ISBN 978-2-209-05790-0. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1988). Les protectorats d'Afrique du Nord, entre la France et Washington (in French). Paris: Editions L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7384-0031-0. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1991). . Chemins de la Mémoire (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-24361-3. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2010). . Hors Collection (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-24292-3. OCLC . S2CID .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1997). Industrialisation et sociétés, 1880-1970 (in French). Paris: Ellipses. ISBN 978-2-7298-6747-8. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2013). . Hors Collection (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-28891-4. OCLC . S2CID .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1 January 2004). L'histoire contemporaine sous influence (in French). Pantin: Le Temps des Cerises. ISBN 978-2-84109-475-2.
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2024). (in French). Dunod. ISBN 978-2-10-087092-9. OCLC . S2CID .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2007). L'intégration européenne de la France (in French). Pantin: Le Temps des Cerises. ISBN 978-2-84109-697-8. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2009). . Hors Collection (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-24365-4. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2012). (in French). Le Temps des cerises. ISBN 978-2-915854-40-4. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2014). (in French). Le Temps des cerises. ISBN 978-2-37071-001-7. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2020). . Collection Histoire (in French). Éditions Delga. ISBN 978-2-37607-197-6. OCLC . S2CID .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2019). (in French). Dunod. ISBN 978-2-10-085683-1. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2016). Les élites françaises entre 1940 et 1944: de la collaboration avec l'Allemagne à l'alliance américaine. Armand Colin. OCLC .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2023). (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-63822-1. OCLC .

Selected articles

  • "Unitaires et Confédérés d'une réunification à l'autre (1934-1943)", Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Institut de recherches marxistes, N15, 1983, 31–58.
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1986). . Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale et des Conflits Contemporains (in French). 36 (142): 81–101. JSTOR .
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1994). . Revue d'Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine. 41 (1): 29–81. doi:.
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1997). . Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah (in French). 1 (159): 8–123. doi:.
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2002). . Mouvements (in French). 3 (21–22): 135–142. doi:.
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (May 2003). (in French). Le Monde Diplomatique.
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  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (May 2005). (in French). Le Monde Diplomatique.
  • Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2007). . La Pensée (in French) (352): 145–159.

Online conferences

  • conférences novembre 2010, dans le cadre d'une "Université pour tous" à la médiathèque Louis Aragon de Bagneux (92) : "Les débuts de l'intégration européenne, des années 1920 à l'après deuxième guerre mondiale".
  • de l'historienne et de son travail, 2011, Les Films de l'An 2.
  • Radio m Drôme
  • article de montpellier-journal.fr, 2010.
  • [permanent dead link] Comaguer, radio galère, 2011. Voir aussi Les archives des Emissions de radio Comaguer.
  • à propos de son livre Le Choix de la défaite, invitée par le parti Solidarité et progrès, 2006.
  • en ligne tenue le 4 octobre 2008 à la maison de l’éducation populaire de Lille. Document enregistré et diffusé par le média du tiers secteur audiovisuel Passerellesud.org
  • du Chspm, 2009.
  • sur Polémix et la Voix Off sur la «Synarchie».

See also