David Russell Stone (born 1968) is an American military historian and the William Eldridge Odom Professor of Russian Studies in the Strategy and Policy Department at the

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. Stone received a

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degree in history and mathematics from

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and a PhD degree in history from

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. He has taught at

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and from 2001 to 2015 at Kansas State University, where he served as the Pickett Professor of Military History. He won the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize of the

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and the Best First Book Prize of the Historical Society for his first book, ''Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933''. He specializes in the military history of

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and the

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. He has written a number of books and several dozen historical articles and book chapters on Russian and Soviet military history and foreign policy.

Works

Books: * '' Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933'' (University Press of Kansas, 2000). * ''A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya'' (Praeger Publishers, 2006). * (ed.) ''The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945'' (Pen & Sword Military, 2010). * ''The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917'' (University Press of Kansas, 2015). *David R. Stone, Jonathan D. Smele, Geoffrey Swain, Alex Marshall, Steven Marks, Andrei V. Ganin, eds. ''The Russian Civil War: Campaigns and Operations'' (Slavica, 2022). *David R. Stone, Jonathan D. Smele, Geoffrey Swain, Alex Marshall, Steven Marks, Andrei V. Ganin, eds. ''The Russian Civil War: Military and Society'' (Slavica, 2022).

Audio and Video Lecture Series

Stone has done two lecture series for

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, including: *"World War II: Battlefield Europe" (24 lectures) *"War in the Modern World" (24 lectures)

External links

Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics
David R. Stone's Article on Gay Rights in Russia
Pomiecko on Stone
Book review by Aleksandra Pomiecko From Stone's work ''The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1918''.
The Disasters of 1915 and Russia's Widening War

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, David R. American military historians 21st-century American historians 1968 births Living people Kansas State University faculty Historians of Russia Historians of the Soviet Union Naval War College faculty Yale University alumni Wabash College alumni Hamilton College (New York) faculty