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Khrushchev Lied
by
Grover Furr
In his "Secret Speech" of February 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused Joseph Stalin of immense crimes. Khrushchev's speech was a body blow from which the worldwide communist movement never recovered. It changed the course of history.
Grover Furr has spent a decade studying the flood of documents from formerly secret Soviet archives published since the end of the USSR. In this ...more
Grover Furr has spent a decade studying the flood of documents from formerly secret Soviet archives published since the end of the USSR. In this ...more
Paperback, 426 pages
Published
January 1st 2011
by Erythros Press and Media, LLC
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Khrushchev lied is certainly a very detailed and thorough book in the sense that it goes in detail to refute every implication and argument Khrushchev makes. The Author had supported most of his claims with primary sources and left many links to those sources in his book so you can look them up online. The amount of detail that had went into this is indeed very extraordinary plus the fact that this author can speak fluent Russian among other languages certainly makes this book a worthy read on s
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The man who wrote this book is biased. I knew that before getting into it and I knew it even more well coming out. He frequents communist rallies and he has a politically motivated ambition to rehabilitate Stalin in particular. If I want to get a fair historical assessment of Hideki Tojo, I won't ask the leader of a Japanese Nationalist party just like I wouldn't ask this guy if I wanted a fair historical assessment of Stalin. With that said, I decided to read the book anyway out of morbid curio
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The lies Khrushchev told in his "Secret Speech" at the 20th Party Congress became the framework for the bulk of the myth-making about Stalin and Soviet history by western historians in the field. Essentially Khrushchev propagates the bulk of the fabrications that Trotsky employed to attack Stalin personally along with a number of new lies that served his own needs. One need may have been to cover his own very possible role in the Trotsky conspiracy to assassinate Stalin. This work debunking the
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Excellent book, Not light reading. Based on research and documents including Soviet archives. Will give an entire new prospective on this period in history and it effects on what we are living though today
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American professor and author of books and articles in Russian and English on Soviet history under the period of Joseph Stalin, particularly relating to the Great Purges and the “Secret Speech.”
Since February 1970 he has been on the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he specializes in medieval English literature, the history of the USSR, and the Communist Movement.
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Since February 1970 he has been on the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he specializes in medieval English literature, the history of the USSR, and the Communist Movement.
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