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Medieval Works Available for Download by FTP
I have put online more than 100 primary texts for research in the European Middle Ages. Get the list, and directions for downloading them, here.
Russian translation of my 1988 article
"New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents
Reconsidered" by my colleague Vladimir L. Bobrov.
Two references to Vladimir Bobrov's and my "Lichnye
pokazaniia N. Bukharina." Klio (St. Petersburg), No. 1 (2007) here and here.
"Some Remarks On Yet Another
Anticommunist Article Concerning Communist Solidarity With The Spanish Republic In The
Spanish Civil War." My brief outline of the "Stalin problem" in
studies of the Spanish Civil War. First posted to the
H-HOAC list on April 7 '08.
Here in Spanish translation, thanks to my old camarada Luis Castro. ˇGracias, Luis!
A very positive Review of my book Antistalinskaia
Podlost' by historian Sergei Semanov in the journal Russkii Vestnik March
13, 2008. (Echoed at my publisher's website here).
Semanov is a prolific historian born in 1934, journal editor, has worked with the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences (Soviet), now associated with the Institue of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A list of more than a dozen of his works of history now in print is available here, at the site of Ozon.ru, a major Russian online bookstore.
"Anatomy of an
Anticommunist Fabrication: The Death of Oliver Law, An Historiographical
Investigation." In Reconstruction 8.1.
(Published March 19, 2008.)
Oliver Law was, for four days in July 1937, commander of the Lincoln Battalion and the first black man to command white American troops. He died as a hero in battle, shot while leading a charge against the fascist forces on July 9, 1937. The essay examines how the late William Herrick fabricated a false story -- really, a couple of them -- about the death of Oliver Law, and how others, especially Cecil Eby, have abetted the falsification. It is a case study in historical falsification for anticommunist purposes.
Review of Cecil Eby,
Comrades and Commissars. The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. Published
in The Volunteer. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Vol.XXIV, No. 4
(December 2007), p. 19.
Home
page for my book, Antistalinskaia Podlost' -- roughly, "Anti-Stalinist
Villany" -- published by "Algoritm"
publishers in Moscow, in Russian.
The publisher insisted on the title, which echoes that of a book published a few years back that sold very well. The English title -- mine -- is:
"Khrushchev Lied: The Evidence That Every "Revelation" of Stalin's (and Beria's) "Crimes" in Nikita Khrushchev's Infamous "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, is Provably False. *
There's a link at the bottom of the page for interested readers to download an analytical chapter omitted from the published version. Or, just go here.
Humble thanks to my colleague, editor and translator Vladimir Bobrov of Moscow, without whom I would never have undertaken, much less completed, this job!
(* Except one minor one, which I can neither verify nor disprove.)
Page from Russian reader's blog of
Feb. 18, 2008, praising my book. Mr Pokrovsky says he emailed
me to thank me, and he did! A fine guy -- thanks, Mr. Pokrovsky!
January 10 2008: Accuracy in Academia names me
"Scholar of the Year"!
What they really mean is "worst scholar of the year." But what that means
is: They disagree with me. Yes, "conservatives" do not care about the truth.
They only care whether you "promote their 'party line'".
Though conservatives attack Postmodernists for denying objective reality, the
conservatives themselves pretend it doesn't exist. Of course -- because reality is very
different from what they say it is! So I really am honored they think me the
"worst". (Also here, as a PDF file).
February '08 - AinA puts me on pages one and five of their February newsletter. Download it here, or here.
Horowitz-Stalin Controversy,
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review March - May 2006.
David Horowitz isn't interested in the truth, and neither are his
defenders. This exchange in Richard Mellon Scaife's conservative newspaper demonstrates
this. (For more detail about how this happened, see "Academic Repression
in the First Person", also linked below).
The URLs for the original articles (still all on the web as of September 13, 2007)
Furr and Bobrov, "Pervye priznatel'nye pokazaniia N.I. Bukharina na Lubianke." Klio No. 1 (2007). Introductory article to our publication of Nikolai Bukharin's previously unpublished confession of June 2, 1937.
Furr and Bobrov, eds. "Lichnye pokazaniia N. Bukharina." Klio (St. Petersburg), No. 1 (2007). Nikolai Bukharin's first confession, of June 2, 1937. Never before published and still unavailable to scholars in Russia.
Remarks on the Moscow Trials, on Evidence, and Objectivity. I wrote this in June 2006 to answer inaccurate criticisms by a young radical who has, however, been influenced by Cold War anticommunist falsehoods. Since we have all been so influenced, to one degree or another, I think it may be useful to others.
Interview of me by Carl Miller, plus a few other things of mine (I think...) translated into Japanese!
Exchange on the Katyn Massacre evidence. Mr. Sergey Romanov put our email exchange online despite the fact I refused to give him permission to do so. Well, there it is! So I will make the best of it and put a link here. Maybe Romanov is right, and the exchange "makes me look bad"? You be the judge!
Mr Romanov refers to a page I wrote on Katyn to help people who ask me for something short about it. I changed the URL when I edited it; this is the new one.
"Did George Washington Turn Down An Offer To Be A King? The Story Behind the Myth." A student in one of my classes mentioned this story. I told her I'd never verified it, and set out to do so. Here's the result (March 2007)
A Masters Thesis in History by one Jason Foster, accepted at Texas Tech U. in August 2006, contains lies about an essay of mine on the Vietnam War. Here is my reply: "A Critique of Jason Everitt Foster's Thoroughly Dishonest Comments on an Essay by Grover Furr." (February 2007)
The Editors of the CUNY Graduate Center Advocate invited me to write an article on Academic Freedom and David Horowitz's stupid attack on me and others. I wrote "Academic Repression in the First Person: Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz" for their November 2006 issue. Thanks, people!
"Stalin and Support for the Spanish Republic." Letter to The Volunteer, March 2005, with response by Prof. Gabriel Jackson.
"Communism and Anti-Semitism -- A Rejoinder." This email of mine to several mailing lists was reprinted by Revolutionary Democracy, a communist journal in India, and in part in Challenge and Desafio (August 16, 2006) of the Progressive Labor Party (USA).
A young man named "Celticfire" did an email-interview with me in June 2006, and posted it in two parts on his fine Maoist blog Celticfire. Here are the links to this interview. Part I at the top of the page, and Part II about half-way down. My thanks to you, Celticfire!
A short essay of mine about my research on Stalin is in an Interview on Carl Miller's blog, "Reason In Revolt Now Thunders," May 12 2006. My thanks to Mr. Miller for giving me this opportunity to state things as I seen them! (Look down the page for "Interview with Grover Furr," May 12). Also here.
(Un)critical Reading and the Discourse of Anti-communism. Published February 2006 in The Red Critique, No.11
- Spanish translation at Espazo Vital; also here.
- In Spanish at "Historiabolchevique" blog (Basque region, Spain).
- In Galician at "Estoutras Notas Politicas". Obrigado, companőes!
- Excerpted by "haisanlu" on his blog "Seek the Truth, Serve the People". Thank you!
- Reposted at "The Greanville Journal" on Nov. 12 2007. The poster, "Cyrano", quotes some of David Horowitz's remarks about me and then states: "Coming from scum like Horowitz, this certainly marks Furr as a fearless academic and activist, which is what he is." Thanks, Cyrano!
Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform, Parts I and II together, published in Galician at "Estoutras Notas Politicas". They even gave my articles their own URL -- "http://stalinreforma.blogspot.com/! Molto Obrigado!
Also reprinted at this Myspace blog by "Sissok."
Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform: Part Two. Published December 2005 in Cultural Logic.
Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform: Part One. Published April 2005 in Cultural Logic.
- Reprinted at Free India Media.Reprinted in Red Star, journal of Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist, New Delhi (issues of January and February 2006). First Part of Part I; Second Part of Part I; Third Part of Part I.
- Reprinted at Frontier Weekly (Calcutta, India). Part I; Part II.
- Reprinted at Sol Birlik (Turkey).
- Reprinted at nodo50.org (Spain).
- Spanish translation by the Partido Comunista de Espana (marxista-leninista) in three parts: Part I; Part II; Part III.
- German translation by Michael Kubi at Red-Channel-De. Herzlichen Dank, Kameraden!
- French translation at Revolutionarydemocracy.org (India). Merci bien, camarades!
- Farsi translation! I don't know any more about it now -- more when I do, but Thanks to those who have done this! Other Farsi versions are here.
Horowitz's Lies About Me. Some of my friends asked me to detail Horowitz's specific lies about me in his book, so I've done so briefly here.
Il'ya Erenburg, "Answer to a
Letter", in Russian original and English translation, transcribed and with an
introduction by Grover Furr (PDF).
Originally published in Pravda, September 21 1948, this is the famous Soviet
Jewish writer's criticism of Zionism. I have written an introduction, transcribed the
Russian text from the original in Pravda, and also provide an English translation
from the American Communist magazine Jewish Life, June 1949, pp. 25-27.
April 26, 2004: What Can We Learn from the Teens? Protest, Rebellion, Commitment: Then and Now, published in Counterpunch today. I wrote this paper for, and delivered it at, a panel at the 2003 MLA Convention sponsored by the Radical Caucus of the MLA. Counterpunch did not publish the notes and bibliography, so here they are.
Reprinted here by Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace; linked at Dialogic blog.
Linked, with excerpt, in Alternative Press Review 04.27.04.
November 10, 2001: An
article of mine on the criminal war against Afghanistan from the student newspaper, The
Montclarion. Also in Counterpunch,
the on-line muckraking journal.
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1/17/02: Now also translated into Greek here (!) ; also
(03.24.06) at this Greek site.
(originally at http://www.geocities.com/kkeml_cpgml/furr.htm)
I hope these pages will be useful to students and all others who have an interest in the topics on which I've collected information.
Medieval Literature
and History Research and Documentation Politics and Social Issues The Vietnam War Here are links to some of my own articles:
"Useful and Little-Known
Applications of Adobe Acrobat 5.0", Edtexpo Annual Conference 2003,
Montclair State University, September 2003.
"From
"Paperless Classroom" to "Deep Reading": Five Stages in Internet
Pedagogy", in Technology Source,
September-October 2003. Also available here,
in PDF format.
“Fraudulent Anti-Communist Scholarship From A
"Respectable" Conservative Source: Prof. Paul Johnson.” Published 2004.
"Anatomy of a Fraudulent Scholarly
Work: Ronald Radosh's Spain Betrayed", in Cultural Logic,
2003.
Two short film reviews from Cineaste
magazine: of "Unfinished Symphony" (Fall 2001) and "Jung: In the Land of the Mujaheddin" (Winter 2001).
"The
Educational Applications of Streaming Audio: Accessible, Do-It-Yourself Multimedia",
from the January-February 2001 issue of Technology
Source. Go here for
the tutorial (also linked within the article itself). Also available here, in PDF format.
"Vietnam to Yugoslavia: What I Learned,"
from The Montclarion (Montclair State Univ. student weekly
newspaper), Thursday, April 15, 1999, p. 14. Reprinted here by 'Open Copy.'
Review of Hugo Keiper, Christoph
Bode, and Richard J. Utz, eds. Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.
Series: Critical Studies, Vol. 10. Amsterdam/Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi B.V., 1997, in The
Medieval Review (TMR), April 6 1999.
Review of Herbert
Eiden, "In der Knechtschaft werdet ihr verharren ...": Ursachen und
Verlauf des englischen Bauernaufstandes von 1381. Trier: Trierer Historische
Forschungen, Vol. 32, 1995, in Prolepsis: The Tübingen Review of English
Studies (on-line journal), October 1998."Using History to Fight
Anti-Communism" -- A review of Robert W. Thurston, Life and
Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941. (London and New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1996, in Cultural Logic (on-line journal), vol. 1,
No: 2 (Summer, 1998).
"Corporate
Ideology and Literary Criticism: How the New Right Pushes the Ideology of Exploitation
in the Field of Literary Studies and What To Do About It" (1997), in NST:
Nature, Society, and Thought Vol. 9, No. 3 (1998), 311-325.
"Nominalism
in the Nun's Priest's Tale: A Preliminary Study". . Originally
published in Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of
Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm. Medieval Studies: Volume 5.
The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, 135-146.
"Separatist
Movement Shows Nationalism = Fascism, (originally composed Nov. 1995). Reprinted here
by 'OpenCopy.'
"Welcome the Rebellion!" About the Los Angeles
'Rodney King' rebellion, Canadian Dimension 26 n. 5, July-August 1992
"New
Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered" .
And here is a PDF facsimile of that article, as it originally
appeared in Russian History/Histoire Russe of 1986 (actually published in 1988).
"Jhesu
Nichil Est Commune Ligurgo: A French Humanist Debate of ca. 1405"
Review
of Thomas G. Butson, The Tsar's Lieutenant: The Soviet Marshal (New York: Praeger,
1984).
"A Lethal Form of Lying: Notes on Anti-Semitism and Cold War
Scholarship," from Comment, Vol. 3, Nos. 3-4 (Spring 1984), 24-29. (PDF
file)
"The Politics Behind the Shooting of
the Pope", from Comment, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1983), 15-18.
"
The AFT, the CIA, and Solidarnosc," from Comment, Vol. 1, No. 2
(1982), 31-34.
My 1979 Ph.D.
dissertation, The Quarrel of the Roman de la Rose
and Fourteenth Century Humanism, is now on the web.
I hope you find them useful. Please click here to send me comments.
Also check out Workplace: the journal for academic labor. Excellent, hard-hitting articles by members of the Grad Student Caucus of the MLA; by other graduate student scholar-activists; and by academic activists.
... and HERE are links to a few verses I have always liked;
"I Paint What I See", by E.B.
White.
"Apolitical Intellectuals", by
Otto René Castillo.
"The Cremation of Sam
McGee", by Robert W. Service.
"The
Shooting of Dan McGrew", by Robert W. Service.
"The
Ballad of Yukon Jake", by Edward H. Paramore, Jr.
"The Little
Red God," author unknown.
"Evolution",
by Langdon Smith.
"The
Montreal Tramway Song", by Wade Hemsworth.
"The
Squid-Jiggin' Ground", by Art Scammell.
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