In his "Secret Speech" of February 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused Joseph Stalin of immense crimes. Khrushchev's speech was a body blow from which the worldwide communist movement never recovered. It changed the course of history.
Grover Furr has spent a decade studying the flood of documents from formerly secret Soviet archives published since the end of the USSR. In this detailed study of Khrushchev’s speech he reveals the astonishing results of his research: Not a single one of Khrushchev's "revelations" is true!
The most influential speech of the 20th century—if not of all time—a dishonest swindle? The very thought is monstrous; the implications for our understanding of Left history—immense. Basing their work on Khrushchev's lies, Soviet and Western historians, including Trotskyists and anticommunists, have effectively falsified Soviet history.
Virtually everything we thought we knew about the Stalin years turns out to be wrong. The history of the USSR, and of the communist movement of the 20th century, must be completely rewritten.
Author(s): Grover Furr
Edition: 2
Publisher: Erythros Press and Media, LLC
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 422
City: Kettering, OH
Chapter 1. The Cult and Lenin's "Testament"
Chapter 2. Collegiality "Trampled"
Chapter 3. Stalin's "Arbitrariness" Towards the Party
Chapter 4. The "Cases" Against Party Members and Related Questions
Chapter 5. Stalin and the War
Chapter 6. Of Plots and Affairs
Chapter 7. Beria, His "Machinations" and "Crimes"
Chapter 8. Ideology and Culture
Chapter 9. Stalin's Last Years in Power
Chapter 10. A Typology of Prevarication
Chapter 11. The Results of Khrushchev's "Revelations"; Falsified Rehabilitations
Chapter 12. Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of Khrushchev's Deception
Appendix. Quotations from Primary and Other Sources
