Grover Furr's Khrushchev Lied is perhaps one of the most important books of the 21st century

By Nikos Mottas

Khrushchev Lied, first published in 2011, is definitely the most emblematic work of Grover Furr, an American Professor of Medieval English Literature at Montclair State University who has devoted years of research on Stalin-era Soviet Union. 

Before going to the book itself, it is significant to underline that Furr isn't an ordinary historian who relies on the dominant narratives and “sacred truths” of bourgeois historiography. On the contrary, he carefully challenges those narratives and “truths”, applying a dialectical approach on history and seeking for the actual facts one by one, usually using an enormous list of thoroughly-searched, primary and secondary, sources.

Enver Hoxha: Revolutionary communists expect China to come out openly against Khrushchevite revisionism

On April 3, 1962, the leader of the Party of Labour of Albania, Enver Hoxha, called China to publicly denounce what he refereed to as "Khrushchevite revisionism". It is reminded that Socialist Albania's relations with the Soviet Union had been ruptured since December 1961, following Hoxha's fierce critique against Khrushchev's "revisionism" and "anti-marxism".

Enver Hoxha's 1962 statement was the following:

Grover Furr's Khrushchev Lied to be published in Greek

Grover Furr's most popular book, "Khrushchev Lied", is going to be published in Greek language (Automorfosi Publishers, Athens) in the beginning of September 2024 under the title "The Lies of Khruschev" (Τα ψέματα του Χρουστσόφ).

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.

Material Forces that Turn Socialism into Capitalism

Nikita Khrushchev and Deng Xiaoping.

By Charles Andrews.

The Soviet Union and China proved that people can build socialism. They also showed that apparently firm socialist countries can fall to capitalism – from within and from the top of the communist party.

Should we give up on socialism, or shall we solve a problem: how do we keep on the communist road to a society of no rich and no poor, securing common prosperity for everyone, and with full development of our humanity in work?