Grigoriy Krivosheyev
Grigoriy Fedotovich Krivosheyev (Russian: Григорий Федотович Кривошеев) (born 1929), is a Russian military historian and a retired Colonel General of the Russian military. He is mostly known in the West via an alternative transliteration of his name Krivosheev, as the editor of a book on Soviet military losses in the 20th century, which was translated and published in English.
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[edit] Biography
Grigoriy Krivosheyev was born the Kinterep village in Legostayevsky (now Iskitimsky) District of Novosibirsk Oblast (province) in Western Siberia.
He is a graduate of the Frunze Military Academy. A Ph. D. (Kandidat nauk) in the Military science, from 1995 Krivosheyev is a professor in the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
Common alternative transliterations of his name are Krivosheyeva, Krivosheev and Krivosheeva
[edit] Scientific work
General Krivosheyev became widely known after the 1993 publication of the book, originally in Russian, about Soviet military losses in various conflicts of the twentieth century, particularly in the Second World War.[1] With Krivosheyev being the general editor of the book, this analysis prepared by historians based on declassified Soviet archival data represents the first comprehensive attempt to scientifically address the losses in the Armed Forces of the former Soviet Union during the Second World War. Previously, the number of human casualties were mostly a matter of political speculations, and widely fluctuated with changes in political expediencies. In 1997 the Krivosheev's book was translated and published in English under a title Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century.[2]
A follow-up book under editorship of professor general-colonel G. F. Krivosheyev addressed Russian and USSR combat losses in the wars of the 20th century, titled Russia and USSR In The Wars Of The 20es Century. Losses in Armed Forces. Statistical research was published in Moscow in 2001.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Grif sekretnosti sniat': poteri Vooruzhennykh Sil SSSR v voynakh, boevykh deystviyakh i voennykh konfliktakh", pod oshchey redaktsiey G. F. Krivosheyeva, Moskva: Voennoe izdatelstvo, 1993, ISBN 5203014000.
- ^ G.F. Krivosheyev, 'Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the twentieth century', London, Greenhill Books, 1997, ISBN 1853672807 (ISBN 9781853672804).
- ^ Rossiya i SSSR voynakh XX veka : poteri vooruzhennykh sil : statisticheskoe issledovanie / pod obshchey redaktsiey G. F. Krivosheeva, Moskva, OLMA-Press, 2001, ISBN 5224015154
[edit] Further reading
- A Book Review of Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the twentieth century by Walter S. Dunn, The Journal of Military History, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 660–661
- A Book Review of Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the twentieth century by James F Dunningan in The World War II Bookshelf: Fifty Must-Read Books, 2004, Citadel Press, ISBN 0806526092. pp. 136–139.
- Krivosheev, Grigoriy. "Россия и СССР в войнах XX века: Потери вооруженных сил: Статистическое исследование [Russia and the USSR in the wars of the 20th century: Loss of armed forces: Statistical study]" (in Russian). http://www.soldat.ru/doc/casualties/book/. Google translation
