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'''Grover Carr Furr III''' (born April 3, 1944) is an American [[professor]] of [[Medieval English literature]] at [[Montclair State University]] who is best known for his [[Historical revisionism|revisionist]] views regarding the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref name="Haynes & Klehr 2003"/> Furr has written books, papers, and articles about [[Soviet history]], especially the [[Stalin era]], in which he has stated that the [[Holodomor]], the 1932–33 famine in Soviet [[Ukraine]], was not deliberate, describing it as a fiction created by pro-Nazi [[Ukrainian nationalism|Ukrainian nationalists]],<ref name="GroverFurrHolodomor" /><ref>{{cite web| url= https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/response_to_comments_121812.html |title= My Response to Comments on article ''The Defamation of Grover Furr'' Montclarion 12.13.12 |author= Grover Furr |date= December 13, 2012 |access-date= September 16, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130110222118/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/response_to_comments_121812.html |archive-date= January 10, 2013 |url-status= live}}</ref> that the [[Katyn massacre]] was committed by the Nazi ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' and not the Soviet [[NKVD]],<ref name="OfficialKatynDisproven" /> that all defendants in the [[Moscow Trials]] were guilty of what they had been charged with,<ref name="MoscowTrialsAndGreatTerror" /> that claims in [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s speech ''[[On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences]]'' are almost entirely false, that the purpose of the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] was to preserve the [[Second Polish Republic]] rather than partition it,<ref name="SecretProtocolsMolotovRibbentrop" /> and that the [[Soviet Union]] did not [[Soviet invasion of Poland|invade Poland in September 1939]], on the grounds that the Polish state no longer existed.<ref name="Furr 2009" /> Furr claims that the mainstream narrative of the Soviet Union and in particular the Stalin era is biased and that many of the claims of mainstream historians are unfounded, and uses the term "anti-Stalin paradigm" to describe this narrative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grover Furr's Home Page |url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Furr |first=Grover |title=Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth |pages=17–19}}</ref>
==Career==
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