Historian Grover Furr has demolished the Anti-Stalin paradigm in his new book published in March 2019 by Red Star Publishers, New York, N.Y. The book examines all of the major claims of Stalin's “crimes“ as alleged in Steven Kotkin's biography of Stalin Volume-2 (2017), titled: 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941'; which can be described as the compendium of Anti-Stalin accusations level against Stalin, which Leon Trotsky started in 1932 and which Nikita Khrushchev's “secret“ speech in 1956 gave a great boost. It became so entrenched in the US academic, literary and mass media circles that even a very significant part of the Left in the US today accepts many of these claims as the truth of history. Furr shows by an impeccable materialist analysis based on evidence that these claims have no credibility. Furr has put the Preface to his book online on his university, url: ~furrg/r.... It is so that you can read it and get an idea
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