Annie Lacroix-Riz (born 1947) is a French academic Marxist historian specializing in France's relations with Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, as well as World War II collaboration.
In her early works, examining post-war reconstruction of France, Lacroix-Riz studied labor union tensions, investigating issues within the General Confederation of Labour union (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT), the work of the communist minister of Labor and syndicalist Ambroise Croizat on social labor reforms, and American trade unionist Irving Brown’s involvement in the labor movement of France. Subsequent works by Lacroix-Riz probe American influence in Europe, as, for example in Sweden, and in the French colonies of North Africa, questioning the motives of the Marshall Plan.
One of her primary theses is that the profit-driven complicity of French industrial and financial institutions in the rise of Nazi Germany contributed to France's 1940 defeat, paving ultimately the path to U.S ascendancy in Europe.
Lacroix-Riz's writings on the 1930s and WWII, particularly regarding financial and industrial interests, the fascist group La Cagoule, her views on Synarchism and the 1930s famine in Ukrainian have been met with varying responses. On one hand, she is recognized for the detailed and comprehensive nature of her work, rooted in archival evidence. On the other hand, her work sometimes faces criticism for ostensible anti-capitalist bias, a criticism based on her challenges of traditional perspectives and conventional narratives.
Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1983). La CGT de la libération à la scission de 1944–1947 (in French). Paris: Messidor. ISBN978-2-209-05530-2. OCLC10615868.
Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1985). Le choix de Marianne (in French). Paris: Editions Messidor/Editions Sociales. ISBN978-2-209-05790-0. OCLC14348463.
Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1988). Les protectorats d'Afrique du Nord, entre la France et Washington (in French). Paris: Editions L'Harmattan. ISBN2-7384-0031-0. OCLC22112682.
Lacroix-Riz, Annie (2016). Les élites françaises entre 1940 et 1944: de la collaboration avec l'Allemagne à l'alliance américaine. Armand Colin. OCLC953981793.
Quatre conférences novembre 2010, dans le cadre d'une "Université pour tous" à la médiathèque Louis Aragon de Bagneux (92): "Les débuts de l'intégration européenne, des années 1920 à l'après deuxième guerre mondiale".
Présentation de l'historienne et de son travail, 2011, Les Films de l'An 2.
Emission[permanent dead link] Comaguer, radio galère, 2011. Voir aussi Les archives des Emissions de radio Comaguer.
Conférence à propos de son livre Le Choix de la défaite, invitée par le parti Solidarité et progrès, 2006.
Conférence mp3 en ligne tenue le 4 octobre 2008 à la maison de l’éducation populaire de Lille. Document enregistré et diffusé par le média du tiers secteur audiovisuel Passerellesud.org
↑Pauwels, Jacques R. (31 August 2017). "France's Passage from the German to the American Era. A brief review of five books by French historian Annie Lacroix-Riz: Lacroix-Riz, Annie. Le choix de la Défaite: Les élites françaises dans les années 1930. Paris: Armand Colin, 2006. 671 pp. 39 € (paper)". Journal of Labor and Society. 20 (3). Brill: 415–418. doi:10.1111/wusa.12296. ISSN2471-4607.
↑Lacroix-Riz, Annie (1983). La CGT de la libération à la scission de 1944–1947 (in French). Paris: Messidor. ISBN978-2-209-05530-2. OCLC10615868.