Annie Kriegel
Annie Kriegel (née Annie Becker; 9 September 1926 – 26 August 1995) was a French historian, a leading expert on communist studies and the history of Communism, a cofounder (1982) of the academic journal Communisme (with Stéphane Courtois), and a columnist for Le Figaro. == Career == Kriegel joined the French Communist Party (PCF) as a student in 1945 and remained a member until 1957.