This is my just over two hour conversation with Professor Grover Furr! Dr. Grover Furr is an author, professor, historian, and Marxist, who teaches Medieval English Literature at Montclair State University. He has published numerous books on the topic of Stalin & The Soviet Union of his day, Including “BloodLies: The Evidence That Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and The Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands is False”, “Khrushchev Lied”, “Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan” and “The Murder of Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship, & The Anti-Stalin Paradign” & I am Tristan, a small ML youtube channel, who is a huge fan of Furr’s. It was an honor to talk with him and I hope to be able to pick his brain more in the future! Professor Furr's Website: https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/ All of Furr's books that are available in PDF: https://libgen.is/search.php?req=grover+furr&open=0&res=25&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def For those who would like a hard copy of any of Professor Furr’s work you can find them for varying prices online! Thank you for being patient, comrades. I hope this lived up to expectations. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Forgeries of Lenin’s Last Writings 10:59 - Collectivization 22:20 - Trotsky’s Activities in The USSR Leading Up to his Exile & After 32:50 - What was Yezhovshchina? (so-called Great Terror) 1:09:53 - Stalin’s Democratic Legacy 1:22:10 - The Field of Soviet History 2:01:30 - Outro

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.