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Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth! Paperback – January 25, 2019

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In October 2017 Stephen Kotkin, professor of history at Princeton University, published "Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929 – 1941." In it, Kotkin accuses Soviet leader Joseph Stalin of dozens of terrible crimes and atrocities.The appearance of Kotkin’s scholarship is daunting: 909 pages of text, more than 5200 footnotes, and 47 pages of bibliography in tiny, triple-column type. But Grover Furr has carefully and methodically studied every one of the hundreds of allegations of atrocity, crime, and misdeeds of any kind that Kotkin attributes to Stalin and his closest advisers. Furr has checked every reference, every article and book, that Kotkin cites as evidence. The result: Furr has found that every single "crime" Kotkin alleges is false - a fabrication. Not a single accusation holds up. On the evidence, Stalin committed NO crime, no atrocities – for if he had, Kotkin would surely have uncovered at least one. Furr’s exhaustive research shows that Soviet history of the 1930s, has been falsified. Furr’s book is a model of meticulous examination of evidence and careful, objective analysis and deduction."Stalin. Waiting For … The Truth" exposes the lies and falsehoods behind Soviet history of the 1930s with the same meticulous attention to detail as his previous works: "Khrushchev Lied" (2011), "The Murder of Sergei Kirov" (2013), "Blood Lies" (2014), "Trotsky’s ‘Amalgams’" (2015), "Yezhov vs. Stalin" (2016), "Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan" (2017), and "The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre; The Evidence, The Solution" (2018).
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Star Publishers (January 25, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0578445530
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578445533
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.82 x 9 inches
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Jeffrey M. Higgins
5.0 out of 5 stars A book that takes the Anti-Stalin Paradigm on directly
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2019
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Grover Furr's book, "Stalin, Waiting for....the Truth", is an exceptional work of investigation. In it, he checks the principal fact-claims made by Stephen Kotkin in his Stalin: Volume 2 book. Kotkin's book is 1154 pages long with 160 pages of triple columned footnotes, etc. In running down Kotkin's footnotes, Furr discovered that they are chock full of inaccuracies, misdirection, logical fallacies, and outright lies. In many cases, Kotkin's footnotes lead to nothing at all, or he gives a footnote and creates an entirely different narrative from whole cloth for his text. Furr checked to see what of the notes were primary and what were secondary sources and then ran down the secondary sources to see what they were based upon. What he shows is that Kotkin's fact-claims as to crimes committed by Stalin are false; not partially false, but in their entirety. So much so that Kotkin's book should be reclassified to the fiction section. As has been noted by others, the book is dry. But the information presented is so important that it should be read by anyone genuinely interested in Soviet history of the Stalin era.
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Mikey Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book based off actual evidence.. unlike the book this book is talking about.
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2022
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Amazing piece of investigative literature. Love Furr and his work.
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Justin Craig
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource!
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2019
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While this book doesn't go into serious detail, as it covers SO MANY topics, it is a GREAT resource to have on hand like an encyclopedia to dispel common myths quickly. I suggest his other books if you are still in doubt about some of the topics covered as he goes much more in-depth on most, and meticulously cites all of his sources, as well as their criticisms.
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(The other) Dr. J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Grover Furr balances the judgments on Stalin, with evidence.
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2022
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Grover Furr balances the judgments on Stalin, with evidence.
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Justin Jaros
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good, well worth it!
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2022
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Easy to read & understsnd.
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Jacob and Holle
5.0 out of 5 stars Tankie Grandpa Rides Again
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2019
Furr is, without a doubt, the most important and worthwhile Soviet Historian working today. His training from studying Medieval Russian literature equipped him for the unenviable task of pouring through the Soviet archives, the real first-hand evidence and primary sources, to fact-check the garbage stream that is writing on the Soviet Union today.

Furr checks all of Kotkin's sources, only to find that Kotkin more than likely didn't check them himself. Kotkin's "biography" of Stalin is a mess, some things true, some things assumed and most things outright false. The book itself is written dryly, very dryly, but Furr isn't really an entertainer so it's not that big of a deal. Reading him write about the bogus of Kotkin is amusing enough to make up for the lack of prose and near-infinite name-drops (of Russian Bolsheviks and American Historians you've never heard of and probably never will again) that litter the book. This book slam's Kotkin's, and it's less than half the length! Maybe borrow or rent Kotkin's book and read it as a warm-up for the real scholarship (;

Thank you Furr for checking his 5200 sources! I sure wasn't going to!
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Shevek
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly and deeply researched analysis.
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2019
Incredibly and deeply researched analysis about the truths and misconceptions regarding Stalin and much of the love and hate surrounding his history.
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TruthSeeker
1.0 out of 5 stars Returned to sender
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019
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This is a terrible book wherein the author says Stalin did no wrong in spite of the historical evidence to the contrary. This is a classic example of communist propaganda. Good grief what a waste. Sent the thing back for a refund.
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alain landry
2.0 out of 5 stars Stalinien
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2022
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Un auteur qui tente de récupérer la colossale biographie de Staline écrite par Kotkin. L'auteur défend l'indéfendable comme les purges dans le parti, les famines etc.
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F P Wood
5.0 out of 5 stars The Problem of Truth in Academia.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2024
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This is an academic book. It is sometimes hard to follow if you have little knowledge of the workings/names of the Communist Party officials and their positions in the Soviet Union system at the time. However, this does not prevent it from being an informative read. Furr highlights and proves wrong the flagrant errors and shockingly deliberate lies and fabrications of Stephen Kotkin's anti-Stalin book, Stalin Waiting for Hitler. (N.B. I am not a Stalinist or a Communist) He does this in a clear and expert way examining many of Kotkin’s key references thoroughly.

Sadly some have wrongly concluded that such a debunking is a dangerous revision of real history and an apology for Stalin. It is not. It is an examination of so-called evidence for the specific crimes that Stalin has supposed to have committed and we have all been led to believe as fact. The evidence for these (Quotas for repression and torture, the ‘Holodomor’ in Ukraine, the fabricating of evidence for the Moscow trials..Red Terror etc..) is not there, which may indicate that much of what we have been led to believe about the Soviet system is unreliable western propaganda. Propaganda in the free west? Surely not!

Some of those submitting reviews here seem not to have read the book. Furr is not giving his opinion, he is presenting the facts, the actual evidence for Stalin as ‘monster’ as opposed to the generally accepted raving anti-commie Hoover Institution view. It is an academic exercise lost on some. It doesn’t matter whether Furr is a medieval expert or local plumber for that matter, is his work thorough, is it sound? He goes to great lengths to reprint the actual documents in the Russian archives…in Russian! and then translates them for us. He examines certain deliberate mistranslations of Russian words.

He examines the Tukhachevsky 'blood-stained' confession…shows us where to find it on the internet. Is it blood? Is it Tukhachevsky’s blood? All these questions could be answered by modern science but Stalin’s detractors, looking for evidence of his crimes never did so. Why?

Kotkin’s deliberate obscuring of contrary evidence like that of Prof. A.D.Coox’s research and Nikolai Velikanov’s book, which shows clearly that high ranking NKVD officer Liushkov, who defected to the Japanese and confirmed after his defection that he and his fellow conspirators, including Tukhachevsky, were planning to overthrow Russia’s government. So, this is provably not a Stalinist paranoid fabrication then?

The murder of Zinaida Reich is more problematic and skated over somewhat. Furr says the burglar murderers were caught and executed...who were they? What was the motive for their crime if no valuables were taken? Reich's open criticism of Stalin and then brutally contrived murder seems suspicious at the very least. Wish there was more on this. (there might be in the reference Furr gives but it is Russian archival site difficult to navigate with google translate.)

However, the inconvenient facts which Kotkin hides, Furr exposes. He encourages us to look at these and come to our own conclusions. Was Stalin a saint? Furr implies nothing of the sort. This is a book with one aim; debunking a highly regarded book claiming to be a scholarly work and accepted as such but which is in fact a deception.
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Jacob Stuart
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2024
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eye-opener
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great dispelling of myths
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2019
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Expertly researched, Furr refutes the outrageous and contradictory claims of Kotkin, demonstrating that the real history of the USSR is yet to be written objectively. A great read and a huge shock for those who unquestionably follow the mainstream historiography of Stalin and the Soviet Union.
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