Timothy Snyder, who holds a prestigious academic post, is famous for writing “Bloodlands”. And as it turns out, “Bloodlands” is full of lies. Not just “lies” in an ideological sense - it’s not an opinion that these are lies. Furr’s book catches Snyder lying about what his sources say. It catches Snyder inventing sources. Snyder omits details from his sources that would contradict his point, he gets page numbers, figures and statistics wrong, and he even uses Nazis and Nazi collaborators as sources without identifying them as such.
Going meticulously through every citation, tracing each claim through Polish, Ukrainian and Russian sources to its faked origin, Furr has proven that one of America’s most famous historians is a fraud. Snyder, who is considered an expert on the Stalin era, wrote a book about the crimes of Stalin, intent on equating Stalin with Hitler. But nearly every citation in his book is bogus. Each citation, noticed on its own in a History 101 term paper by a sharp TA, would get a freshman undergrad flunked, with an accompanying sobering lecture about whether they should be attending university at all. But Snyder sits happily in his tenured post at Yale. If you email him about “Blood Lies” he pretends not to have heard of it.
To add to Cowbee’s list of recommendations, this book in particular is so bad that this exists:
Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation Against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands Is False