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Director of Research at Ined and Director of Studies at EHESS.
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Béatrice von HIRSCHHAUSEN, Les provinces du temps. Frontières fantômes et expériences de l’histoire
- By Alain Blum
In Cahiers d'histoire russe et est-européenne (2025/4 Vol. 66)
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The Great Terror of 1937-1938
A Deep Historiographic Renewal
- By Nicolas Werth
- and Alain Blum
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2010/3 No 107)
Territorialization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Territory: The Case of the Soviet and Russian Political System
- By Alain Blum
- and Elena Filippova
In L’Espace géographique (2006/4 Vol. 35)
Peasant Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Russia
- By Alexandre Avdeev,
- Alain Blum,
- Irina Troitskaia,
- et al.
In Population (2004/6 Vol. 59)
Martin Olivier, 2020, L’empire des chiffres, une sociologie de la quantification [The empire of numbers: A sociology of quantification], Paris, Armand Colin, 297 p.
- By Alain Blum,
- Translated by Paul Reeve
In Population (2021/3 Vol. 76)
After 15 years of transition, the Russian population is still in turmoil
- By Alain Blum
- and Cécile Lefèvre
In Population & Societies (2006/2 N° 420)
Secrecy and political inefficiency
The handling of statistics on mortality in the USSR (1959-1985)
- By Alain Blum
In Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest (2018/1 No 1)
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Articles
Béatrice von HIRSCHHAUSEN, Les provinces du temps. Frontières fantômes et expériences de l’histoire
In Cahiers d'histoire russe et est-européenne (2025/4 Vol. 66)
Elena Bogdanova. Complaints to the authorities in Russia a trap between tradition and legal modernization. London, Routledge, 2021, 250 pages.
In Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest (2024/2 Vol. 55)
Memorial: Writing History and Advocating Human Rights Despite Repression and Exile
In Communications (2024/1 No 114)
Archiving, documenting in War time: Ukraine and Russia today
- By Nathalie Grigorciuk,
- Françoise Daucé,
- Alain Blum
- et al.
In Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps (2022/3 No 145-146)
Mie NAKACHI, Replace the Dead. The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union
In Cahiers du monde russe (2021/4 vol. 62)
Martin Olivier, 2020, L’empire des chiffres, une sociologie de la quantification [The empire of numbers: A sociology of quantification], Paris, Armand Colin, 297 p.
- By Alain Blum,
- Translated by Paul Reeve
In Population (2021/3 Vol. 76)
“How I came to study Soviet history…”
Interview with Larissa Zakharova, conducted by Alain Blum in Moscow on January 25, 2019
- By Alain Blum
- and Larissa Zakharova
In Cahiers du monde russe (2019/2 Vol. 60)
Sound archives - European memories of the gulag
In Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps (2019/1 No 131-132)
Arsenij Roginskij (1946–2017)
- By Alain Blum
- and Catherine Gousseff
In Cahiers du monde russe (2018/2 Vol. 59)
ALEXEÏ PAVLIOUKOV, Le fonctionnaire de la Grande Terreur : Nikolaï Iejov, Paris, Gallimard, 2017, 654 p., ISBN 978-2-07-012609-5
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2018/2 No 65-2)
Jeffrey S. Hardy, The Goulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, 1953‑1964 | Michael David‑Fox, ed., The Soviet Goulag: Evidence, Interpretation and Comparison
In Cahiers du monde russe (2017/4 Vol. 58)
Secrecy and political inefficiency
The handling of statistics on mortality in the USSR (1959-1985)
In Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest (2018/1 No 1)
Interview with Marc Ferro
October 3, 2015 and December 2016
In Cahiers du monde russe (2017/1 Vol. 58)
Russia and Its Past
In Esprit (2017/2 February)
Laurent Lardeux, Retours d’exil. Ethnographie des rapatriements de réfugiés en Afrique centrale, Paris, Éditions EHESS, Cas de figure, 2015, 255 p.
In Population (2016/2 Vol. 71)
Political Decisions and Bureaucratic Articulation: The Lithuanian Deportees of Operation “Spring” (1948)
- By Alain Blum,
- Translated by Madeleine Grieve
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2015/4 No 62-4)
The Hero, the Martyr, and the Erased Rape (Lithuania 1944-2000)
- By Alain Blum,
- Amandine Regamey,
- Translated by Helen Tomlinson
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2014/1 No. 39)
In memoriam Alain Desrosières (1940–2013)
In Revue européenne des sciences sociales (2013/2 51-2)
Russia, a Land of Immigration? A Likely Demographic Scenario
In Revue internationale et stratégique (2013/4 No 92)
In memoriam
In Cahiers du monde russe (2009/4 Vol 50)
The Great Terror of 1937-1938
A Deep Historiographic Renewal
- By Nicolas Werth
- and Alain Blum
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2010/3 No 107)
Demography in Russia and Central Europe
In Études (2010/3 Volume 412)
Anne Applebaum. Goulag: Une histoire, Grasset, 2005, 716 pages
In Critique internationale (2007/1 No 34)
Territorialization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Territory: The Case of the Soviet and Russian Political System
- By Alain Blum
- and Elena Filippova
In L’Espace géographique (2006/4 Vol. 35)
After 15 years of transition, the Russian population is still in turmoil
- By Alain Blum
- and Cécile Lefèvre
In Population & Societies (2006/2 N° 420)
Peasant Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Russia
- By Alexandre Avdeev,
- Alain Blum,
- Irina Troitskaia,
- et al.
In Population (2004/6 Vol. 59)
Russia: Ancient Vestiges and New Behaviors
In L'Économie politique (2004/1 No 21)
The Past at the Service of the Present
The Soviet State’s Statistics Administration between 1918 and 1930
- By Martine Mespoulet
- and Alain Blum
In Cahiers du monde russe (2003/2 Vol 44)