Grover Furr

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Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American

Moscow Trials were guilty as charged,[5] that claims in Nikita Khrushchev's speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences are almost entirely false, that the purpose of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was to preserve the Second Polish Republic rather than partition it,[6] and that the Soviet Union did not invade Poland in September 1939, on the grounds that the Polish state no longer existed.[7] Furr claims that the mainstream narrative of the Soviet Union and in particular the Stalin era is biased and that many of the claims by mainstream historians are unfounded, because they follow "anti-Stalin paradigm".[8][9]

Career

According to Grover Furr, he graduated from

Ph.D degree from Princeton University. He has been on the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he specializes in Medieval English literature.[10]

Views

Holodomor

See also: Holodomor genocide question

In a

Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who found havens in Western Europe, Canada, and the USA after the war."[2][non-primary source needed
]

Moscow Trials

Contrary to the widely accepted view that the

Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,[11] Furr believes that all defendants in the Moscow Trials were at least guilty of what they were charged,[5] as argued in a 2017 article for Journal of Labor and Society, a quarterly journal published by Brill.[12]

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

In 2012, Furr stated that the

Jewish Holocaust; certainly preventing the conquest of France, Belgium, and the rest of Europe; [and] certainly prevented many millions of deaths of Soviet citizens".[7]

Soviet invasion of Poland

Regarding the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, Furr stated in 2009 that the Soviet Union did not actually invade the Second Polish Republic because Poland no longer had a government and was not a state according to international law, further stating that "at the time it was widely acknowledged that no such invasion occurred." Furr believes that the state Poland no longer existed because the Polish government was interned in Romania, although it continued to be recognized by all Allied powers. According to Furr, the Polish government did not declare war on the Soviet Union and only declared war on Nazi Germany, as did Britain and France. Britain did not demand the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops and France had a mutual defense treaty with Poland. Secondly, the Polish General Inspector of the Armed Forces Edward Rydz-Śmigły ordered Polish soldiers not to fight the Soviets and instead to continue fighting the Germans while the Polish president Ignacy Mościcki, who was interned in Romania since September 17, 1939, tacitly admitted that Poland no longer had a government and maintained its stance of neutrality. Finally, Furr notes that the League of Nations did not determine the Soviet Union had invaded a member state and accepted the Soviet declaration of neutrality while it voted to expel the Soviets when the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the Winter War.[7]

Katyn Massacre

Contrary to the historical consensus and as stated by both the

capital crimes.[14]

"Khrushchev Lied"

Furr's book Khrushchev Lied, subtitled "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", 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" because it was delivered at an unpublicized closed session of party delegates, with guests and members of the press excluded.

According to a review by Gregory Elich in the Marxist academic journal Science & Society, "it would be too much to expect from Furr to live up to his claim that not one specific statement by Khrushschev turned out to be true", that Furr's dislike of Khrushschev "often interferes with his analysis," and that the arguments by Furr about all defendants of Moscow Trials being guilty do not survive fact checking. Elich writes that "Furr demolishes Khrushchev's points" regarding the assessment of Stalin as a wartime commander.[11]

Disagreement with historians

Furr has disagreed with many historians of the Soviet Union, including

Stephen Kotkin,[18]
and accused them of dishonestly distorting what he believes to be the truth in their publications on Soviet history.

Reception

Conservative historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr stated that Furr "lauded the creation of Communist regimes" in Europe and Asia because "billions of workers all over the world are exploited, murdered, tortured, oppressed by capitalism."[1] In response to Furr's critical review, historian Gerald Meyer of Hostos Community College wrote that "Furr defends the Soviet state's expulsion of the Volga Germans, Tartars, [sic] Chechens, and other ethnic minorities from their homelands", "objects to my contention that collectivization of agriculture resulted in widespread resistance and famine", and "spends most of his energy attempting to refute the truism that Stalin was aware of and approved of huge numbers of political executions."[19]

Cathy Young, describing Furr in an article for The Daily Beast as "a 'revisionist' on a career-long quest to exonerate Stalin", said that Furr's work, along with that of Douglas Tottle, was being used as part of a larger propaganda campaign by the Russian government to muddy the waters and obfuscate the history of Soviet crimes.[20]

Anti-communist historian Jarosław Szarek, president of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance,[13] condemned Furr's work as denying Soviet war crimes, comparing it to "the scandalous manifestations of Holocaust denial."[21]

During a public debate at a university campus in 2012, Furr was quoted as saying: "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 bullshit. ... Goebbels said that the

Nazi propaganda because a mediator of the discussion suggested that Furr was using tactics invented by Joseph Goebbels.[22][23]

According to British journalist

The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, stating that Furr uses his university courses to "vent his political passions on his helpless students", citing Furr's denunciation of "Western imperialists" that was published in the Montclair State University student newspaper.[25][26]

Bibliography

Books

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9781893554726
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  2. ^ a b Furr, Grover (March 3, 2017). "The 'Holodomor' and the Film 'Bitter Harvest' are Fascist Lies". CounterPunch. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  3. ^ Grover Furr (December 13, 2012). "My Response to Comments on article The Defamation of Grover Furr Montclarion 12.13.12". Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
  4. ^
    S2CID 141695301. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on August 18, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Furr, Grover (July 31, 2010). "The Moscow Trials and the 'Great Terror' of 1937–1938: What the Evidence Shows". Montclair State University. Archived from the original on July 1, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Furr, Grover (2012). "The Secret Protocols to the M-R Pact Did Not Plan Any Partition of Poland". Montclair State University. Archived from the original on January 17, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c Furr, Grover (2009). "Did the Soviet Union Invade Poland in September 1939?". Montclair State University. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  8. ^ "Grover Furr's Home Page".
  9. ^ Furr, Grover. Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth. pp. 17–19.
  10. ^ "Grover Furr". Montclair State University. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  11. ^
    JSTOR 24583594
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  12. S2CID 158458641. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  13. ^ a b Babović, Darja (2018). Anamnesis of Poland's Mnemonic Determinism: Are Historic Narratives Misused to Support Conservative Political Agenda (PDF) (Masters). Central European University. pp. 31–32. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  14. ^ a b Furr, Grover (August 6, 2013). "The Katyn Forest Whodunnit". Montclair State University. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  15. ^ Furr, Grover (August 5, 2015). "Response to the Death of Robert Conquest". Montclair State University. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  16. ^ Furr, Grover (August 15, 2022). "Sergei Romanov's Lies about the Polish Policemen's Badges Found at Vladimir-Volynskii, Ukraine, in 2011 in Novaya Gazeta Article on Katyn 12.15.2021". Montclair State University. Archived from the original on August 19, 2022. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  17. ISBN 9780692200995
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  18. ISBN 9780578445533
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  19. S2CID 150227671
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  20. ^ Young, Cathy (October 31, 2015). "Russia Denies Stalin's Killer Famine". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 3, 2021. Updated April 13, 2017{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  21. ^ Szarek, Jarosław (May 11, 2018). "Open letter of the President of the Institute of National Remembrance to prof. Grover Furr and Montclair State University Authorities". Institute of National Remembrance. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
  22. ^ Gehrke, Joel (November 13, 2012). "Your tax dollars at work: Prof says Stalin did not kill millions of people — that's 'the Big Lie'". Washington Examiner. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  23. ^ Dreher, Rod (November 26, 2012). "'They Lied, Nobody Died'". The American Conservative. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  24. ^ O'Sullivan, John (August 14, 2015). "What to Make of the Guardian's Shameful Robert Conquest Obituary?". National Review. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  25. OCLC 63171004
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  26. ^ Furr, Grover (October 4, 1984). "WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN FROM THE VIETNAM WAR?". The Montclarion. p. 11. Archived from the original on April 17, 1997.

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