Grover Furr

Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University. He is however best known as the author of several books that attempt to exonerate Stalin, and especially the book Khrushchev Lied where he describes the "Secret Speech" by Nikita Khrushchev as "lies".

Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., Grover Furr graduated from McGill University in Montreal, 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.

Works, beliefs and reception

He is mostly known for his book Khrushchev Lied. The book attacked the speech given by Nikita Khrushchev, called On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, but 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 "revisionist" school of Soviet and Communist studies. In May 2014 he held a talk at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His works have been also reviewed in Russian language magazine Russkii Vestnik (2008).