Grover Furr

Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University, but is best known for his books and articles on the history of the USSR under Joseph Stalin, particularly the 1930s.

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

Furr's book, Khrushchev Lied attacked the speech given by Nikita Khrushchev called On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, 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 school of Soviet and Communist studies. In May 2014, he held a talk at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In a review of "Khrushchev Lied", the Russian Orthodox weekly Russkii Vestnik described Furr's research as "objective" and "impressive".

Furr has been described by historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr as a historical revisionist. Cathy Young described him as "a 'revisionist' on a career-long quest to exonerate Stalin".Furr believes that the Katyn massacre was not committed by the NKVD. He has also claimed that the Soviet Union's occupation of Poland in 1939 did not constitute an invasion, and that the defendants of the Moscow Trials were guilty. His book on this subject has been cited in Russia as confirmation that the revisionist views are also "supported by foreign historians".

Furr has also received some negative attention from a number of American media outlets. Far-right writer 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 alleged antisemitism, and on a number of other historical issues. Furr was also criticized by far-right websites like FrontPage Magazine 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."