Annie Lacroix-Riz


Annie Lacroix-Riz 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, established in 2004.

Work

Her interests are the political, economic and social history of the French Third Republic and Vichy Government, 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, the role of French minister Ambroise Croizat on social labor reforms, and American trade unionist Irving Brown’s role in France. Subsequent works further probe American influence in Europe and in the French colonies of North Africa and put into question the motives of the Marshall Plan.
One of her primary theses is that profit-driven complicity of French industrial and financial institutions with Nazi Germany contributed to France's 1940 defeat,paving the path to U.S ascendancy in Europe.
Lacroix-Riz’s writings on the 1930s and WWII, particularly regarding financial and industrial interests, terrorist group La Cagoule, her views on Synarchism and Holodomor have sparked mixed critical 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 faces criticism of potential anti-capitalist bias, since she challenges traditional perspectives and conventional narratives.

Publications

Books

  • Selected articles

  • "Unitaires et Confédérés d'une réunification à l'autre ", Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Institut de recherches marxistes, N15, 1983, 31–58.

  • Online conferences

  • conférences novembre 2010, dans le cadre d'une "Université pour tous" à la médiathèque Louis Aragon de Bagneux : "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.
  • Comaguer, radio galère, 2011. Voir aussi 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».