About
AT A GLANCE:
William E. Odom Professor of Russian Studies, U.S. Naval War College
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Russian/Soviet Military History
• Russian/Soviet Foreign Policy
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor David R. Stone, the William E. Odom Professor of Russian Studies at the
Naval War College, joined the Strategy and Policy Department in 2015. He received
a B.A. from Wabash College and a Ph.D. in history from Yale. He previously taught
at Kansas State University. His book “Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the
Soviet Union” (2000) won the Shulman Prize of ASEEES and the Best First Book Prize
of the Historical Society. He has also published “A Military History of Russia” (2006)
and “The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917” (2015). He edited
“The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945” (2010). He is the author of several dozen articles
on Russian military history and foreign policy.
PUBLICATIONS:
The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015).
A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006).
Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933 (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000).
Editor: The Russian Civil War: Campaigns and Operations (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2022).
Editor: The Russian Civil War: Military and Society (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2022).
Editor: The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945 (Pen & Sword: Barnsley, UK, 2010 [US distributor Casemate])
The Great Courses: World War II--Battlefield Europe.
The Great Courses: War in the Modern World.
CONNECT / FOLLOW:
FB: @DrDavidRStone
LinkedIn: @david-stone-8b99483