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