Annie Lacroix-Riz

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. 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.

Publications

Books

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.

"Les comités d'organisation et l' Allemagne: tentative d'évaluation" (2003/4)

Online conferences Quatre 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". Présentation de l'historienne et de son travail, 2011, Les Films de l'An 2. Intervention sur Radio m Drôme Conférence mp3 article de montpellier-journal.fr, 2010. Emission Comaguer, radio galère, 2011. Voir aussi Les archives des Emissions de radio Comaguer. Conférence à propos de son livre Le Choix de la défaite, invitée par le parti Solidarité et progrès, 2006. Conférence mp3 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 "Les concepts historiques tabous de l’historiographie dominante", Vidéo du Chspm, 2009. Intervention sur Polémix et la Voix Off sur la «Synarchie».