Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (N.Y: Basic Books, 2010) is by far the most successful attempt to date to equate Stalin with Hitler, the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. It has received dozens of rave reviews, prizes for historiography; and has been translated into 25 languages. Snyder's main target is Joseph Stalin. His broader claim is that the Soviets killed 6 to 9 million innocent civilians while the Nazis were killing about 14 million. Snyder finds parallels between Soviet and Nazi crimes at every turn. Grover Furr methodically checked every single footnote to anything that could be construed as a crime by Stalin, the USSR, or pro-Soviet communists. Snyder's main sources are in Polish and Ukrainian, in hard-to-find books and articles. Many sources are reprinted in Blood Lies in their original languages - Polish, Ukrainian, German, Russian - always with English translations. Furr has found that every single "crime" Snyder alleges is false - a fabrication. Often Snyder's sources do not say what he claims. Often Snyder cites anticommunist Polish and Ukrainian secondary sources that do the lying for him. Not a single accusation holds up. Blood Lies exposes the lies and falsehoods behind Soviet history of the Stalin period with the same meticulous attention to detail as Furr's 2011 work Khrushchev Lied and his 2013 book The Murder of Sergei Kirov.
Author(s): Grover Furr
Publisher: Red Star Publishers
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 582
City: New York
Table of Contents......Page 2
Acknowledgements......Page 3
List of Abbreviations......Page 4
Introduction: What is "Bloodlands"?......Page 5
Chapter I: The "Man-Made" Famine and "Deliberate Famine" Arguments in Bloodlands, Chapter I.......Page 40
Chapter II: The Famine of 1932-33 "Deliberate"? Snyder's "Seven Points" of Proof......Page 72
Chapter 3: Snyder, Chapter 1 - Appendix......Page 117
Chapter 4: Bloodlands Chapter 2: Snyder's Claim of the Soviets' "Class Terror" Examined......Page 176
Chapter 5: Examining Snyder's Claim of "National Terror" in Bloodlands, Chapter 3......Page 206
Chapter 6: The Ezhovschina, or "Great Terror", and the "Polish Operation": What Really Happened......Page 279
Chapter 7: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: What Really Happened......Page 298
Chapter 8: Snyder's Fraudulent Claims about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Bloodlands, Ch. 4......Page 325
Chapter 9: Snyder's Fact Claims in Bloodland Chapters 5 and 6, Examined......Page 364
Chapter 10: The "Katyn Massacre"......Page 380
Chapter 11: The Partisan War and Related Issues......Page 403
Chapter 12: Bloodlands Chapter 9 - Poland and the Home Army......Page 428
Chapter 13. Bloodlands Chapter 10: Accusations of Soviet Crimes Near the War's End......Page 462
Chapter 14. Snyder's Accusations of Soviet Anti-Semitism in Bloodlands Chapter 11......Page 485
Chapter 15: An Examination of the Falsehoods in Bloodlands......Page 525
Conclusion: The Missing "Crimes of Stalinism".......Page 541
Bibliography and Sources; Corrigenda and Addenda......Page 565
Index......Page 566
