Grover Furr

Grover Furr is an American historian of Soviet history. His works are strongly recommended reading by the Infrared community and he has been interviewed by Infrared.

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Origin story

Grover Furr began as a medieval historian, but the Vietnam War made him question who were the "good guys", leading him to research Stalin's "crimes", only to discover the rabbit hole of falsification.

Q- Professor, please tell us how and why you, a Princeton University Ph.D. whose doctoral dissertation was devoted to the French Middle Ages, became interested in Soviet history of the Stalin era?

A - My first field of specialization is medieval studies. I don’t have any formal certificate that would "qualify" me to do research on the history of the Soviet Union during Stalin’s time.

But as a medievalist I have been trained to do deeply historical research. For instance, to use primary sources in languages other than English. Never to rely on "received knowledge" or "received opinion." Not to trust the opinions of "recognized authorities." To check everything for myself.

As a graduate student from 1965-69 I opposed the US war in Vietnam. At one point somebody told me that the Vietnamese communists could not be the "good guys", because they were all "Stalinists", and "Stalin had killed millions of innocent people."

I remembered this remark. It was probably the reason that in the early 1970s I read the first edition of Robert Conquest’s book The Great Terror when it was published. I was shaken by what I read!

I should add that I could read the Russian language since I had already been studying Russian literature since High School. So I studied Conquest’s book very carefully. Apparently no one else had ever done this!

I discovered Conquest was dishonest in his use of sources. His footnotes did not support his anti-Stalin conclusions! Basically, he used any source that was hostile to Stalin, regardless of whether it was reliable or not.

Eventually I decided to write something about the so-called "Terror." It took a long time, but in 1988 I finally published "New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered" ... During this time I studied the research being done by the new school of historians on the Soviet Union that included Arch Getty, Robert Thurston, Roberta Manning, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Jerry Hough, Lewis Siegelbaum, Lynne Viola, and others.

The oldest article listed on his website is The CIA and Solidarnosc (1982), where he points out that the Western corporate media had accepted, but glossed over the fact, that the "heroic" Polish anti-communist Solidarnosc, while presenting itself as a "workers' movement", was funded by the CIA via AFL-CIO.

The second oldest is The Politics behind the Shooting of the Pope (1983), where he points out that logically, the pope was probably not shot by the Soviets but by fascist terrorists.

Notable Works

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 (2011)

The Murder of Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm (2013)

Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation Against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is False (2014)

Trotsky's 'Amalgams': Trotsky's Lies, the Moscow Trials as Evidence, the Dewey Commission (2015)

Yezhov Vs. Stalin: The Truth about Mass Repressions and the So-called "Great Terror" in the USSR (2016)

Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan (2017)

The Moscow Trials As Evidence (2018)

The Fraud of the Dewey Commission: Leon Trotsky's Lies (2018)

The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre: The Evidence, the Solution (2019)

Stalin: Waiting for... the Truth! Exposing the Falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (2019)

Trotsky's Lies (2019)

New Evidence of Trotsky's Conspiracy (2020)

Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy: Soviet and Non-Soviet Evidence; with the Complete Transcript of the “Tukhachevsky Affair” Trial (2021)

The Fraud of the "Testament of Lenin" (2022)

Stalin Exonerated: Fact-Checking the Death of Solomon Mikhoels (2023)

Trotsky's Comintern Conspiracy - the Case of Osip Pyatnitsky (2024)

Web presence

• Monclair University Homepage
• Author page on Erythros Press and Media