I gotta say that I find this guy's lunacy incredibly entertaining.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [the irrepressible Grover Furr reports to the MLG
> list]
>
> Dear MLG friends:
>
> My colleague Vladimir Bobrov notifies me from Moscow
> today that my
> book is listed on the "top 10 sellers" of the large
> Moscow publisher,
> "Algoritm".
>
> It is also #6 in the "Russian history" list at
> Moscowbooks, a major
> Moscow bookstore that also has an online business.
>
>
http://www.moscowbooks.ru/catalog/theme.asp?id=++++4F+++&offset=0
>
> *My book -- in Russian only at this point -- gives
> the evidence to
> prove that Nikita Khrushchev lied in his infamous
> "Secret Speech" to
> the 20th Party Congress in February, 1956. I
> investigated every one of
> the sixty-one allegations against Stalin and
> Lavrentii Beria
> Khrushchev made in that speech.
>
> These allegations are often referred to as
> "revelations", as though
> they were "the truth."
>
> In my book, and using documents from former Soviet
> archives now
> published in Russia, I show that every one of those
> allegations is
> false. Khrushchev lied -- and did so knowingly.
>
> Of course this fact means that the history of the
> Stalin years in the
> USSR that we have all been taught, is quite false.
>
> One might call this false view the
> "Trotsky-Khrushchev-Cold War-
> Gorbachev" version. I'm sure we are all familiar
> with it. *
>
> Here's the page:
>
> http://www.algoritm-kniga.ru//index.php?
> option=com_alphacontent§ion=4&cat=18&Itemid=38
>
>
> The books are listed alphabetically by last name of
> author. In Russian
> as in Greek "F" comes towards the end of the
> alphabet, so my book is
> 3rd from last here.
>
> This isn't the "top 10 in history", but the "top 10
> overall." Other
> books on this list include books on Putin; on
> ancient Moscow; on the
> conversion of Russia to Christianity; on Mikhail
> Bulgakov and just who
> the "Margarita" of his book _The Master and
> Margarita_ might have
> been; etc.
>
> No one is more surprised by the sales of this book
> than I am. Vladimir
> informs me that the publisher is not surprised, so
> presumably they
> have done some promotion that is invisible to me.
>
> Vladimir also informs me that there is some surprise
> that the book was
> written by an American. There are quite a lot of
> books by American
> authors on Soviet history and translated into
> Russian. But they are
> all negative, strongly anticommunist, anti-Soviet,
> and anti-Stalin --
> "Cold War" stuff. So this one breaks the pattern.
>
> Vladimir tells me he replies that Khrushchev's 1956
> speech has been so
> pounded into the heads of Soviet citizens, and now
> Russians, that no
> one questions it any more. (That's not _quite_ true,
> of course).
>
> * * * * *
>
> *Please ask your local and academic libraries to
> order copies! *
>
> Virtually all academic libraries, and a great many
> public libraries,
> have Russian collections. There are a huge number of
> Russians in the
> USA now.
>
> Here's the URL for the American distributor
> Eastview. Acquisitions
> librarians usually prefer to order from a US-based
> distributor.
> Eastview is in Minneapolis.
>
>
http://www.eastview.com/xq/ASP/sku=796702B/f_locale=/Ferr/Grover/
>
> Moskva/Russia/Russian/qx/russian/books/product.asp
>
>
> The title of the book is "Antistalinskaia Podlost".
> The author is
> given as "Ferr, Grover." That's me (in Russian).
>
> Thanks to all those MLG'ers who have emailed me with
> their best
> wishes. I offer the same to all of you!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Grover Furr
> Montclair State University
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