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2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

She graduated in Political Science in 1952 from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (SciencePo) and earned a PhD in History in 1963 with a thesis on the revolution in Central Asia, and a PhD in Letters and Humanities in 1976 with a thesis on the Bolsheviks and the nation. Professor of History at the Paris 1 University, in 1969 she became a lecturer and researcher at SciencePo, where she spent a major part of her career and headed the Department of Soviet Studies at the Centre for International Research. She taught at the College of Europe in Bruges and as a visiting lecturer at various universities outside of France

As a historian, Carrère d’Encausse is an international reference in Slavic studies, a specialist in the extinct Soviet Union (USSR) and Russia.

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