Jean-Louis Panné is a historian and former editor at Gallimard. He collaborated in
the Black Book of Communism,
edited by Stéphane Courtois (Bouquins Éditions, 1997), and is notably the author of a remarkable biography,
Boris Souvarine: le premier disenchanté du communisme
(Robert Laffont, 1993), by
Jan Karski , the “novel” and history
, (Pascal Galode, 2010) and
Marseillaise
s (Buchet-Chastel, 2018).
D'Alembert is credited with a maxim that should be remembered by all who weave praises to the former General Secretary of the CPSU, Mikhail Gorbachev, at the hour of his passing:
"The simple and exact truth should be the basis and 'soul of all praise'.
Indeed, the avalanche of "vibrant tributes" gives an image of the politician that must be nuanced, first and foremost on the internal level.
When Mikhail Gorbachev acceded to the supreme office of the Soviet state, he took over from Konstantin Tchernenko, who died on March 10, 1985. The latter had succeeded Yuri Andropov, who died…
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