Nicolas Werth (born 1950 in Paris) is a French historian. Werth is a scholar of communist studies. He is the son of Alexander Werth, a Russian born British journalist and writer who lived in the USSR during World War II. Nicolas Werth has taught abroad (Minsk, New York, Moscow, Shanghai). He served as Cultural AttachĂ© at the French Embassy in Moscow during perestroika from 1985 to 1989. Werth joined the CNRS in 1989, where he devoted himself to History of the Soviet Union.âŠ
