Grigoriy Krivosheev

Grigoriy Krivosheev

Grigoriy Fedotovich Krivosheyev ( _ru. Григорий Федотович Кривошеев) (b. 1929 - ), is a Russian military historian, a retired Colonel General of Russian military, mostly known in the West after the book on the Soviet military losses in the twenties century, of which he was a general editor, was translated and published in English.

Biography

Grigoriy Krivosheev 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 Krivosheev is a professor in the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.

cientific work

General Krivosheev 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."Grif sekretnosti sniat': poteri Vooruzhennykh Sil SSSR v voynakh, boevykh deystviyakh i voennykh konfliktakh", pod oshchey redaktsiey G. F. Krivosheeva, Moskva: Voennoe izd-vo, 1993, ISBN 5203014000.] With Krivosheev 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".G.F. Krivosheev, ‘Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the twentieth century’, London, Greenhill Books, 1997, ISBN 1853672807 (ISBN13 9781853672804).]

A follow-up book under editorship of professor general-colonel G. F. Krivosheev 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.Rossiya i SSSR voynakh XX veka : poteri vooruzhennykh sil : statisticheskoe issledovanie / pod obshchey redaktsiey G. F. Krivosheeva, Moskva, OLMA-Press, 2001, ISBN 5224015154]

References

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.


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