Grover Furr

Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University. He is however best known as the author of several books that attempt to exonerate Stalin, and especially the book Khrushchev Lied where he describes the "Secret Speech" by Nikita Khrushchev as "lies".

Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., Grover Furr graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1965 with a BA in English. He received a Ph.D in Comparative literature from Princeton University in 1978.[1] Since February 1970 he has been on the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he specializes in medieval English literature.[2]

Works, beliefs and reception

He is mostly known for his book Khrushchev Lied. The book attacked the speech given by Nikita Khrushchev, called On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, but more commonly referred to in the West as the "Secret Speech." It was positively reviewed in the Journal of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy by Sven-Eric Holmström, who declared it to be a valuable contribution to the "revisionist" school of Soviet and Communist studies.[3] In May 2014 he held a talk at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.[4] His works have been also reviewed in Russian language magazine Russkii Vestnik (2008).[5]

Grover Furr has been described by historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr as a revisionist author[6] who, according to Cathy Young, was "on a career-long quest to exonerate Stalin".[7] Furr believes that the Katyn massacre was not committed by the NKVD,[8] despite Russia officially admitting as of 2010, that the killings were carried out by the Soviet Union.[9] Furr has also received some negative attention from a number of American conservative media outlets. David Horowitz listed him as one of the "101 most dangerous academics in America", and criticizes him for believing that "it was morally wrong for the United States to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union", denying the Katyn massacre, Stalin's antisemitism, and on a number of other historical issues.[10] Furr was also criticized by websites like FrontPage Magazine[11] and The Daily Caller[12] for a response he gave to a question on Stalin during a university debate:

“I have spent many years researching this and similar questions and I have yet to find one crime that Stalin committed.”

Bibliography

Books

References

  1. ↑ Grover C. Furr, The Quarrel of the Roman de la Rose and Fourteenth Century Humanism. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, January 1979
  2. ↑ http://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=furrg
  3. ↑ Grover Furr, Khrushchev Lied (Kettering, Ohio: Erythros Press & Media LLC, 2011) Journal of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, 2013
  4. ↑ “苏联时期相关重大历史事件”国际学术报告会在京举行 "Major historical events related to the Soviet Period" International Academic Report Meeting Held in Beijing
  5. ↑ Sergei Semanov. "Khrushchev i Ego 'Bor'ba s Kul'tom' v Svete Istiny". Russkii Vestnik. March 13, 2008.
  6. ↑ Haynes, John Earl & Harvey Klehr. In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage. San Francisco: Encounter Books. 2003. pp. 26-27.
  7. ↑ Russia Denies Stalin’s Killer Famine by Cathy Young
  8. ↑ US Historian: Stalin Not Guilty of Major War Crime Blamed on Him (Katyn)
  9. ↑ "Russian parliament condemns Stalin for Katyn massacre". BBC News. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  10. ↑ Horowitz, David. The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2006. pp. 186-189.
  11. ↑ "Professor Grover Furr Praises Stalin, Claims He Never Committed ‘One Crime’"
  12. ↑ "Professor defends Stalin, socialism at student-organized debate"

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