Episode 21 - Fight for a Better World with Kristen Chapman Gibbons

Dr. Furr is the author of several books and articles on Soviet History, specifically the Stalin era of 1930 to 1953. I wanted to talk with him because every single one of his publications stands in contradiction to the generally accepted narratives of Soviet History.

If you ask a random person who Joseph Stalin is, they'll probably tell you something like Stalin was a brutal dictator and he killed millions of people. Books by historians Steven Kotkin and Robert Conquest affirm these accusations of crimes and atrocities, and so people generally believe that standard line about Stalin. Of course, all of this works in service of framing the USSR as totalitarian, and more broadly permits the positing of the false notion of horseshoe theory.

As you'll hear in our conversation, Dr. Furr has spent years combing through the footnotes of the authors like Kotkin and Conquest. He's not only refuting their accusations, but he's publishing books showing why their accusations are false with primary source evidence. His work is remarkable when you begin to think of the ways 20th-century world history would change if we had to fundamentally rethink the history of Soviet Russia.

It really was an honor and a privilege to speak with Dr. Furr about his research, and his latest publication, Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy. So here's my conversation, with Dr. Grover Furr.

Links

• Grover Furr's Website
• Grover Furr's books from his publisher
• Grover Furr bio
• Trotsky's archive he sold to Harvard University

Some of Grover Furr's books mentioned or discussed during this episode

• Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy by Grover Furr
• Trotsky's Lies by Grover Furr
• Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr
• Stalin: Waiting for the Truth by Grover Furr

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