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The Murder of
Sergei Kirov
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Grover Furr
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The Murder of Sergei
Kirov
History, Scholarship
and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm
For almost eighty
years, bourgeois historians, armchair
academicians and garden variety Russophiles have collectively regarded
Sergei Kirov’s 1934 murder as one of the greatest unsolved
murders of the modern era. But how can a crime be
“unsolved” if the same group of agenda-driven
conspiracy
buffs simultaneously point every conceivable finger of guilt at the
West’s favorite boogeyman, Joseph Stalin? Researcher Grover
Furr
exposes the shameless duplicity of the anti-Stalin paradigm that is
replete in most major accounts of Kirov’s murder, offering
complete and original translations of key historical documents and
detailed analysis of their significance in an important synthesis that
effectively reconsiders one of the most important events in the history
of the Soviet Union. Written with the same diligence and care as his
2011 work Khrushchev
Lied,
Furr’s book The Murder of
Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm
is a resoundingly bold rejoinder to decades of unfettered omission,
distortion and misinformation by Western historians.
* Addenda and Errata from First Edition
Reviews and Comments on The Murder of Sergei Kirov
“Grover Furr moves with perfect ease with the Russian
language
and Russian archives. Without being intimidated by political
correctness his research and documentation is precise, patient,
meticulous. He has already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as
the title of one of his previous books states, Khrushchev Lied. Now he
confronts the question of Kirov's murder. The Soviet tragedy begins
with the “Kirov Affair”. This is one more reason to
reconsider it, in the light of the important novelties in the book by
Grover Furr.”
-
Professor Domenico Losurdo,
University of Urbino, Italy
Author of Stalin. Storia e critica
di una leggenda nera (Rome:
Carocci, 2008)
“Matthew
Lenoe in his massive work has argued
that Kirov’s murderer was in fact a lone gunman, and that
Stalin
used the Kirov murder as an ideal opportunity to smear his opponents.
Drawing upon many archival and published sources, Professor Furr
provides a better and objective analysis, arguing that the murderer did
not act alone, but was a member of the Zinovievite
conspirational
organization.”
- Professor Candan
Badem, Professor of Russian and Soviet history,
Tunceli University, Turkey
“Grover
Furr analyzes in detail the
interrogations of Nikolaev's associates, compares them with the
testimony of a number of the arrested Zinovievite and the materials of
the Moscow Trials 1936-38. He cites sources not accessible to the
Russian reader: the Volkogonov Archive, letters of Trotsky from Harvard
University, books and article published in the West that are not
available in Russian... Furr's book is not an “easy
read.”
In the author’s own words, it is “for those readers
who
seek critical examination and analysis.”
- Igor’ Pykhalov, historian, St Petersburg, Russia, author of
more than a dozen books on Stalin and Soviet history.
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About the Author
Grover Furr
began studying
Russian language and literature as a teenager and became interested in
Soviet history about a decade later. He has conducted extensive
research on the Stalin period of Soviet history, on and off since the
1970s, and intensely for the past decade. To read his research, as well
as interviews in which he explains his research more throughly, visit
his home
page. Furr teaches in the
English Department at Montclair State University. He has a
Ph.D.
in Medieval Comparative Literature from Princeton University.
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