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The Murder of Sergei Kirov
History, Scholarship and the
Anti-Stalin Paradigm
By Grover Furr
Erythros Press and Media, LLC
Corrected Edition, November 2013
Acknowledgements and Dedication
List of Abbreviations
Introduction.
The Problem
Implications
Our Analysis
Chapter 1. Kirilina.
Incompetence
Falsehoods
Materials In Kirilina's Book But Omitted By Lenoe
Nikolaev's Finances
Nikolaev's Interrogation of "After December 4"
Nikolaev's Confession of circa December 8
Kirov's Learning
An Earlier Attempt To Kill Kirov?
Zinoviev's Oppositional Activity
Chapter 2. Lenoe's Introduction.
Factual Inaccuracies and False Statements
Begging the Question
Torture
Anticommunism
Chapter 3. Lenoe's Errors.
Ivan Serov and "Katyn"
Shatunovskaia
"Torture"
Serov again
More Errors
The Famine of 1932-33
Dr. Lidia Timashuk
Sergo Ordzhonikidze's Death
Zhukov's Reading at the June 1957 Central Committee Plenum
Khrushchev's "Secret Speech"
Khrushchevites "Revealed Many Of Stalin's Most Heinous Crimes"
Post of General Secretary
Chapter 4. Fallacies and Errors in Lenoe's Argumentation.
Anticommunist Bias
"Argument By Scare Quotes"
Psychologizing; or, "When You Have No Evidence, Attack The Person"
Nakhaev
The Ezhovshchina
Chapter 5. Lenoe and the Fallacy of 'Begging the Question'
Conclusion
Chapter 6. The Leningrad and Moscow Centers.
Chapter 7. The Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites.
Soviet Rehabilitation Reports
Lenoe's Error
Chapter 8. Nikolaev's First Confession.
Petukhov and Khomchik
Two Different Texts of "Nikolaev's Interrogation of December 1"
Conclusions
Enukidze's Story
The Text of "Nikolaev's Confession of December 1, 1934"
Chapter 9. Stalin's Remark to "Target the Zinovievites"
The Evidence That Stalin "Framed" the Zinovievites
Chapter 10. Iurii Sedov, "Reliable Researcher"
"Svoiaki"
Chapter 11. Documents Lenoe Ignores.
Kotolynov Interrogation of December 12, 1934
In this confession Kotolynov does the following:
"Dvurushnichestvo"
Zinoviev and Kamenev Were Lying
Tsar'kov Interrogation of December 13, 1934
Plan To Get Rid of Stalin And His Leadership
"Ustranenie Stalina" - The Removal of Stalin
Nikolaev As Member of the Leningrad Zinovievite Organization
Importance of Tsar'kov's Confession
Gorshenin Interrogation of December 21, 1934
Kotolynov Interrogation of December 19, 1934
Mil'da Draule Interrogation of December 11, 1934
Rumiantsev, Tarasov, Evdokimov, Gorshenin Interrogations, December 22 - 25, 1934
Prosecutor's Indictment of December 25, 1934
Omission #1: Lenoe 347; OM 10-11.
Omission #2: Lenoe 349; OM 15-16.
Omission #3: Lenoe 349; OM 17.
Omission #4: Lenoe 350, top; OM 18, top.
Omission #5: Lenoe 350, second ellipsis from top; OM 18, center of page:
Omission #6: Lenoe 350, third ellipsis, center of page; OM 19.
Omission #7: Lenoe 350, bottom of page; OM 20.
Discussion of Passages Omitted By Lenoe
Chapter 12. Evidence Lenoe Ignores: Kirov Murder to 1936 Trial
1935
Zinoviev Continued To Lie
Renewed Investigation of the Kirov Assassination
Ia. A. Mirovitskii's Confession
M.N. Iakovlev's Confession
The Secret Letter of the Central Committee of July 29, 1936
Pretrial Confessions of Zinoviev and Kamenev
Chapter 13. Evidence Lenoe Ignores -The First Moscow Trial
Questions of Methodology
The Bloc: Its Formation and Composition
Active planning for murder of Kirov
Marxism and Terrorism
Trotsky and Terror
Mark Zborowski
The Rights and Terror
Yurii Gaven
The "Hotel Bristol" Question
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Evidence Lenoe Ignores - The Second and Third Moscow Trials.
Was the Trial Testimony Falsified?
The Kirov Assassination
The Second Moscow Trial: Conclusion
Evidence Leno Ignored: The Third Moscow Trial
Bulanov's Testimony
Chapter 15. Iagoda's Confession
Iagoda's Testimony
Lenoe Concealed These Confessions
What Iagoda's Pre-Trial Confessions Reveal
Chapter 16. Bukharin and Kotolynov.
Letter To Radek, 1932
"Remove The Leadership"
The Bloc
The Two Bukharin Letters
Bukharin's Letter To Medved' About Kotolynov133
Conclusion
Chapter 17. Liushkov's Essay.
Liushkov's account of the Kirov affair in Kaizo, March 1939
Liushkov's Other Claims in his Kaizo Article
What Liushkov Told the Japanese
Liushkov's Kaizo Article As Propaganda
The Importance of Liushkov's Testimony
Lenoe's Hypothesis Refuted
Chapter 18. Enukidze and the "Lone Gunman" Story.
The "Lone Gunman" Version
Avel' Enukidze
Evidence
Chapter 19. Osmund Egge.
Egge's Account of the Investigation
Conclusion
Chapter 20. Conclusion: The Logic of the Evidence.
The Coverup
Trotsky's Coverup
Khrushchev
The Wider Implications of the Kirov Murder
Khrushchev Lied
The Big Coverup of Soviet History
Appendix One - The Issue of Torture
Torture and the Historical Problems Related To It164
"Torture" and evidence
Evidence that torture was not used
Appendix Two - Texts of Primary Documents Ignored by All Previous Writers
Sources
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