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A Conversation with Grover Furr (4/26/22)

I am sharing this here for anybody who may be curious. The following message is from an e‐mail that Prof. Furr recently sent to me:

Dear friends:

Mr. Tristan Pennell interviewed me on Tuesday, April 26 (2022) concerning my research on Joseph Stalin and the falsehoods and lies of Stalin-era scholarship. […]

He posed five questions about Stalin and Stalin-era research. The interview is 2 hours in length.

In case you'd prefer to listen to it in sections, I have marked the times where a new question and answer begins..


Here are the questions Mr. Pennell chose to ask me.

Start (my answer begins at 1:35) - Stalin’s coming to power & the subsequent conspiracies/attempts to remove him with forgeries of Lenin’s writings

10:58 - The reality of collectivization - how it was actually a real reform that led to a dramatic bettering of living conditions for the peasantry, food security for the country, and also allowed for rapid industrialization.

22:29 - Trotsky being exiled, Yezhovshchina (mainly how it wasn’t Stalin’s “terror” but a plot to stir up discontent between the people & the party) and how the Stalin leadership eventually caught and crushed this plot.

32:41 - The truth about the Purges and how it wasn’t Stalin removing his political opponents as the anti-communists say, but actual threats to the country.

1:09:47 - The next topic is one I think is important, & that is the democratic legacy of Stalin. His anti-bureaucracy/pro-democracy movement, his work on the 1936 constitution & how even without having everything Stalin wanted, it still nonetheless was the most democratic constitution in the world.


I would appreciate any criticisms or other comments you might care to make. Good, intelligent criticism can only help me improve my research.

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