Grover Furr

Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University. He has been criticized for denial of Stalinist crimes. He claimed that Holodomor Genocide was a Nazi hoax, that the Katyn massacre was not committed by the Soviet NKVD, that all defendants of Moscow Trials were guilty as charged, that "not one specific statement" by Khrushchev in his speech on the consequences of Stalinist repression "turned out to be true", that Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was to preserve, rather than attack Poland, and that Soviet Union did not invade Second Polish Republic.
Career.
Born in Washington, D.C., Furr graduated in 1965 from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with a BA in English. Since February 1970, he has been on the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where he specializes in medieval English literature.
Beliefs.
Historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr noted how Furr "lauded the creation of Communist regimes" in Europe and Asia because "billions of workers all over the world are exploited, murdered, tortured, oppressed by capitalism". Furr's books, especially on the Katyn massacre, have been cited in Russia as confirmation that the revisionist views are also "supported by foreign historians." Historian Jarosław Szarek, president of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, condemned Furr's work as denying Soviet war crimes, comparing it to "the scandalous manifestations of Holocaust denial". Historian Gerald Meyer of Hostos Community College noted in reply to Furr's critique of a review he wrote that "Furr defends the Soviet state’s expulsion of the Volga Germans, Tartars, Chechens, and other ethnic minorities from their homelands", "objects to my contention that collectivization of agriculture resulted in widespread resistance and famine", and "spends most of his energy attempting to refute the truism that Stalin was aware of and approved of huge numbers of political executions."
During a public debate at a university campus in 2012, Furr said that "I have yet to find one crime — yet to find one crime — that Stalin committed. […] I know they all say he killed 20, 30, 40 million people — it is bullshit. […] Goebbels said that the Big Lie is successful and this is the Big Lie: that the Communists — that Stalin killed millions of people and that socialism is no good." "Washington Examiner" and "American Conservative" wrote that Furr referred to Nazi propaganda because a mediator of the discussion suggested that Furr was using tactics invented by Joseph Goebbels. Historian Ronald Radosh accused Furr of academic malpractice by making these claims to students.
Holodomor.
In a "CounterPunch" article published in March 2017, Furr argued that "[t]here was a very serious famine in the USSR, including (but not limited to) the Ukrainian SSR, in 1932-33. But there has never been any evidence of a 'Holodomor' or 'deliberate famine,' and there is none today. The 'Holodomor' fiction was invented by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who found havens in Western Europe, Canada, and the USA after the war."
Stalinist trials.
According to Furr, all old Bolshevik defendants of the Moscow Trials were guilty of espionage and treason, exactly as they were charged of. 
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Soviet invasion of Poland.
Furr states that the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed by the sides to preserve an independent Poland rather than planning a partition of Poland as was in fact stipulated in the secret protocols to the Soviet-Nazi agreement.
Regarding the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, Furr claims that the Soviet Union did not actually invade Second Polish Republic because Poland no longer had a government and, according to Furr, was not a state according to international law, further arguing that "at the time it was widely acknowledged that no such invasion occurred". Furr believes Poland no longer existed because the Polish government was interned in Romania, although it continued to be recognized by all Allied powers. According to Furr, the Polish government did not declare war on the Soviet Union and only declared war on Nazi Germany as did Britain and France.
Katyn massacre.
Furr has argued that the Katyn massacre was committed by the Nazis rather than by the Soviet NKVD, as accepted by most historians, and as acknowledged by both the Soviet Union (1991) and the Russian Federation (2004).
Khrushchev Lied.
Furr's book "Khrushchev Lied" attacked the speech given by Nikita Khrushchev called "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", more commonly referred to in the West as the "Secret Speech". According to review by Gregory Elich "it would be too much to expect from Furr to live up to his claim that not one specific statement by Khrushschev turned out to be true", that his dislike of Khrushschev in the book was palpable, and that the arguments by Furr about all defendants of Moscow trials being guilty do not survive fact checking. According to another reviewer, the assertions by Furr can be supported by writings by other revisionist historians, such as Yuri Zhukov, J. Arch Getty, Mark Tauger and Stephen Wheatcroft. Among them are assertions by Furr that, contrary to the speech by Khrushchev, the Stalin's personality cult did not exist, that Holodomor was "disproved", that Slalin was not a dictator and fought to make Elections in the Soviet Union truly democratic, and that Trotsky was guilty of plans to assassinate Stalin.