Historian Nicolas Werth turns to memoir with 'Adieu ma Russie'
The leading French historian of the Soviet Union publishes a personal account of his father, a journalist and Soviet enthusiast whose faith broke with the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and of his own path into history.
Nicolas Werth, widely regarded as France's foremost historian of the Soviet Union, has published "Adieu ma Russie," a book that turns from scholarship to memoir, according to Le Monde.
The book centers on his father, a journalist and writer who admired the Soviet world until the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia shattered that faith, and who later took his own life, Le Monde reports. Werth weaves this intimate family story together with the broader history he has spent his career studying, tracing how his father's disillusion and death shaped his own vocation as a historian.
Le Monde describes the account as poignant, joining the personal and the historical in a single narrative.
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