Stéphane Courtois

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Stéphane Courtois (born November 25, 1947) is a French historian.

He is currently employed as research director (i.e. senior research scientist) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in the Géode (group of study and observation of democracy) at University Paris X. He is editor of the journal Communisme and part of the Cercle de l'Oratoire think tank.

An outspoken critic of Communism (though once a Maoist himself), he became known worldwide as the editor of The Black Book of Communism, which sold millions of copies in several languages.