Grover Furr
Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American
professor of
Medieval English literature at
Montclair State University and writer on the
Stalin-era Soviet Union. He is best known for his
historically revisionist views on the subject. Furr has written books, papers, and articles about
Soviet history, especially the
Stalin era, in which he has stated that the
Holodomor, the 1932–33 famine in the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, was not deliberate, describing it as a fiction created by pro-Nazi
Ukrainian nationalists, that the
Katyn massacre was committed by the Nazi ''
Schutzstaffel'' and not the Soviet
NKVD, that all defendants in the
Moscow Trials were guilty as charged, 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, and that the
Soviet Union did not
invade Poland in September 1939, on the grounds that the Polish state no longer existed. 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".
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