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Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University who is known for denying crimes of Stalinism.

Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., Grover Furr graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1965 with a BA in English. Since February 1970, he has been on the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he specializes in medieval English literature.[1]

Works, beliefs and reception

Furr has been described by historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr as a historical revisionist who "lauded creation of Communist regimes" in Europe and Asia because "millions of workers are exploited, murdered, tortured, oppressed by capitalism".[2] Cathy Young described him as "a 'revisionist' on a career-long quest to exonerate Stalin".[3] Furr believes that the Katyn massacre was committed by Nazis, rather than by the NKVD.[4][5] He has also claimed that the Soviet Union did not invade Poland in 1939,[6] and that all defendants of the Moscow Trials were guilty as charged.[7] According to Russian government-owned news agency Sputnik, Grover Furr believes that "the US and NATO have been by far the most aggressive and murderous power in the world since WW2", while "the USSR never did anything remotely comparable" to the crimes by the West.[8] According to Furr, "there has never been any evidence of a "Holodomor" or "deliberate famine," and there is none today. The "Holodomor" fiction was invented by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who found havens in Western Europe, Canada, and the USA after the war."[9]

Furr's book, Khrushchev Lied attacked the speech given by Nikita Khrushchev called On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, more commonly referred to in the West as the "Secret Speech". According to a review of the book, "Furr identifies 61 allegations in Khrushchev’s speech. He concludes that, with only one minor exception, every one of them is demonstrably false. In essence Furr claims to have proven that this “speech of the century” is a fraud from beginning to end."[10]

According to British journalist John O'Sullivan[11] Grover Furr is "a “historian” who denies that Stalin committed any crimes at all... Revisionist historians nostalgic for “really existing socialism” have long sought to minimize the number of Stalin’s victims and the scale of Soviet crimes. But the extravagance of Furr’s claims — every accusation against Stalin false! — made it hard to take them seriously. They amount less to revisionism than to outright denial of historical reality." David Horowitz listed Furr as one of the "101 most dangerous academics in America" for "venting" his Stalinist and anti-American "political passions on his helpless students" by claiming that the U.S. got what it deserved on September 11 and misinforming his students by claims like the U.S. being behind the assassination of Pope John Paul II.[12]

Furr has been also been accused of academic malpractice by Ronald Radosh[13]. During a public debate in a University campus, Furr said that "I have yet to find one crime — yet to find one crime — that Stalin committed... I know they all say he killed 20, 30, 40 million people — it is bulls–t . . . Goebbels said that the Big Lie is successful and this is the Big Lie: that the Communists — that Stalin killed millions of people and that socialism is no good." Furr referred to Nazi propaganda because a mediator of the discussion suggested that Furr was using tactics invented by Goebbels.[14][15][16]

Bibliography

English

  • Grover Furr. Khrushchev Lied. The Evidence That Every "Revelation" of Stalin's (and Beria's) Crimes in Nikita Khrushchev's Infamous "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, is Provably False. Kettering, OH: Erythros Press & Media. 2011.
  • Grover Furr. The Murder of Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm. Kettering, OH: Erythros Press & Media. 2013.
  • Grover Furr. Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands Is False. Plus: What Really Happened in: the Famine of 1932–33; the "Polish Operation"; the "Great Terror"; the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; the "Soviet invasion of Poland"; the "Katyn Massacre"; the Warsaw Uprising; and "Stalin's Anti-Semitism". New York: Red Star Publishers, 2014.
  • Grover Furr. Trotsky’s "Amalgams." Trotsky's Lies, The Moscow Trials As Evidence, The Dewey Commission. (Trotsky's Conspiracies of the 1930s, Volume One). Kettering OH: Erythros Press & Media LLC, 2015.
  • Grover Furr. Yezhov Vs. Stalin: The Truth About Mass Repressions and the So-Called 'Great Terror' in the USSR. Kettering, OH: Erythros Press & Media LLC, 2016.
  • Grover Furr. Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan. (Trotsky's Conspiracies of the 1930s, Volume Two). Kettering OH: Erythros Press & Media LLC, 2017.
  • Grover Furr. The Fraud of the Dewey Commission. NY: Red Star Publishers, 2018.
  • Grover Furr. The Moscow Trials as Evidence. NY: Red Star Publishers, 2018.
  • Grover Furr. The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre: The Evidence, The Solution. Kettering, OH: Erythros Press & Media, LLC, 2018.
  • Grover Furr. Stalin: Waiting For ... The Truth! Exposing the Falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Waiting For Hitler, 1929–1941. New York: Red Star Publishers. 2019.
  • Grover Furr. Trotsky's Lies. Kettering, Ohio: Erythros Press & Media LLC. 2019.
  • Grover Furr. New Evidence of Trotsky's Conspiracy. Ohio: Erythros Press & Media LLC. 2020.

References

  1. ^ http://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=furrg
  2. ^ Haynes, John Earl & Harvey Klehr. In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage. San Francisco: Encounter Books. 2003. pp. 26–27.
  3. ^ Young, Cathy (April 13, 2015). "Russia Denies Stalin's Killer Famine". The Daily Beast.
  4. ^ Furr, Grover (2013). "The 'Official' Version of the Katyn Massacre Disproven?" (PDF). Socialism and Democracy. 27 (2): 96–129. doi:10.1080/08854300.2013.795268.
  5. ^ "Катынский расстрел: продолжатели дела Геббельса | Аналитика". NewsBalt (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  6. ^ Did the Soviet Union Invade Poland in September 1939? NO!
  7. ^ "The Moscow Trials and the 'Great Terror' of 1937–1938: What the Evidence Shows"
  8. ^ Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: Why Does West Hate Stalin?, by Sputnik
  9. ^ Furr, Grover (March 3, 2017). "The "Holodomor" and the Film "Bitter Harvest" are Fascist Lies". CounterPunch.
  10. ^ Grover Furr, Khrushchev Lied (Kettering, Ohio: Erythros Press & Media LLC, 2011)[1] Journal of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, 2013
  11. ^ What to Make of the Guardian’s Shameful Robert Conquest Obituary? John O'Sullivan, August 14, 2015 ], National Review
  12. ^ Horowitz, David. The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2006. pp. 186–189.
  13. ^ Academic Malpractice: The Case of Grover Furr By Ronald Radosh, Nov 13, 2012
  14. ^ Your tax dollars at work: Prof says Stalin did not kill millions of people — that’s ‘the Big Lie’ by Washington Examiner
  15. ^ "Professor defends Stalin, socialism at student-organized debate", by Zachary Snider, The Daily Caller
  16. ^ ‘They Lied, Nobody Died’, The American Conservative, by Rod Dreher
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