About Denis L. Babichenko
Born in Moscow, the USSR, in 1968. He attended the Russian State University for the Humanities where he studied history and archives. Dr Babichenko received his PhD in History at Moscow State University in 1995.
He is the author of the academic monograph Writers and ensors (Pisateli i tsenzory (Moscow, 1994), and the compiler of two collections of documents Literary Front (Literaturnyi front (Moscow, 1994)), Happiness of the Literature (Schast'e literatury (Moscow, 1997)), which focus on the history of censorship in the USSR in the 1920s1940s.
Between 1990 and 2018, he published about 20 articles in academic journals and about 50 articles in various newspapers and magazines on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. Some of them have been translated and published in Germany, Hungary and Poland.
Acknowledgments
It is no exaggeration to say that the publication of this book became possible only with the comprehensive support of a well-known expert on the history of Russia and the USSR, Prof. Dr Dietrich Beyrau, Emeritus Professor of the University of Tbingen (Germany) and Honorary Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities and also the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, in the implementation of the time-consuming project Calculations of the Economic Losses of the USSR in World War II: Organizations, Methods, and Examples of Political Uses (19421947). Thank you very much, professor.
I would like to express my appreciation to the Moscow historian and journalist Andrei Mikhailovich Smirnov for his valuable advice and comments on the monograph manuscript, and also for his advice on the manuscript, published in 2013, which started this project.
My special thanks to Klaus Gestwa, Professor and Director of the Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies at the University of Tbingen, for organising a colloquium in Germany in October 2016, where my report A Politically Motivated Statistical Calculation of the Economic Damage of the USSR in World War II: Organization, Methods, and Examples. 19421947 was discussed; and to Manfred Sapper, Doctor of Historical Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal OSTEUROPA, for assistance with the publication of the article Planned damage.
For the help with project implementation, I would like to thank the staff of the entre of Socio-Political History (formerly the Library of Marx-Engels Institute to the Central Committee of the CPSU); the Russian State Library; the State Archive of the Russian Federation; the Russian State Archive of Economy; the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive; and Lyudmila Pavlovna Kosheleva, the leading specialist in the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History.
I dedicate this book to the blessed memory of my parents, Galina Ivanovna and Leonid Georgievich, as well as to my wife, Nadezhda, and my son Miron my chief inspirations and main helpers.
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Denis Babichenko, Razrukha v golovakh in Itogi, no. 18 (2013): 1417.
Denis Babichenko, Geplante Verluste. Zur Berechnung der materiellen Kriegsschden der UdSSR im Zweiten Weltkrieg 19431947 in Osteuropa, no. 6 (2018): 143164.
Abbreviations
ChGK Extraordinary State Commission for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the GermanFascist invaders and their accomplices.
CIA Central Intelligence Agency of the federal government of the United States.
CPA Central Party Archive.
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
FSB Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
GARF State Archive of the Russian Federation.
GDP Gross Domestic Product.
GDR German Democratic Republic.
GIO Gross Industrial Output.
GKO State Defence Committee.
GNI Gross National Income.
Gosplan State Planning Commission under SNK.
Gosstrakh Chief Directorate of State Insurance.
GPU State Political Administration under the NKVD of the RSFSR.
GRU Chief Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (Army Intelligence).
GSVG Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany.
GULAG Main Administration of Camps.
GUKR Main Directorate of Counter-Intelligence SMERSH.
GUShD General Directorate of Highways at the NKVD.
KGB Committee for State Security.
KPSS Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Minfin Ministry of Finance.
Minzdrav Ministry of Health.
MVT Ministry of Foreign Trade.
Narkomsredmash Peoples Commissariat of Medium Machine-building.
Narkomsviaz Peoples Commissar of Communications.
Narkomtekstil Peoples Commissariat of Textile Industry.
NEP New Economic Policy.
NKAP Peoples Commissariat of Aviation Industry.
NKB Peoples Commissariat of Munitions.
NKES Peoples Commissariat of Power Plants.
NKCh Peoples Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy.
NKF Peoples Commissariat of Finance.
NKGB Peoples Commissariat for State Security.
NKGK Peoples Commissariat for State Control.
NKID Peoples Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.
NKKhP Peoples Commissariat of Chemical Industry.
NKLP Peoples Commissariat of Light Industry.
NKMF Peoples Commissar of the Merchant Navy.
NKMMP Peoples Commissariat of Meat and Dairy industry.
NKMV Peoples Commissariat of Mortar Weapons.
NKNP Peoples Commissariat of Petroleum Industry.
NKO Peoples Commissariat of Defence.
NKPP Peoples Commissariat of Food Industry.
NKPS Peoples Commissariat of Railways.
NKRF Peoples Commissariat of the River Fleet.
NKRP Peoples Commissariat of the Fishing Industry.
NKS Peoples Commissariat of Shipbuilding Industry.
NKT Peoples Commissariat of Trade.
NKTP Peoples Commissariat of Tank Industry.
NKTsM Peoples Commissariat of Non-ferrous Metallurgy.
NKV Peoples Commissariat of Arms.
NKVD Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
NKVMF Peoples Commissariat of the Navy.
NKVT People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade.
NKZ Peoples Commissariat of Agriculture.
NKZagotovok Peoples Commissars of Procurement.
NKZdrav Peoples Commissariat of Healthcare.
NTP Peoples Commissariat of Heavy Industry.
OGPU Unified State Political Directorate under the SNK.
OSS Office of Strategic Services of the United States.
Politburo Political Bureau of the Central Committee (Highest policy-making authority).
RGAE Russian State Archive of Economy.
RGAKFD Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive.
RGASPI Russian State Archive of Social and Political History.
Rosrezerv Agency for State Reserves of Russia.
RSFSR Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
SMERSH Death to spies (Counter-Intelligence Agencies in the Red Army).