David R. Stone

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 U.S. Naval War College.^[1]

Stone received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and mathematics from Wabash College and a PhD degree in history from Yale University. He has taught at Hamilton College and from 2001 to 2015 at Kansas State University, where he served as the Pickett Professor of Military History.^[2] He won the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 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.^[3][4] He specializes in the military history of Russia and the Soviet Union. He has written a number of books and several dozen historical articles and book chapters on Russian and Soviet military history and foreign policy.^[5][6]

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).^[7]
• (ed.) The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945 (Pen & Sword Military, 2010).^[8]
• The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (University Press of Kansas, 2015).^[9]
• 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 The Great Courses,^[10] including:

• "World War II: Battlefield Europe" (24 lectures)^[11]
• "War in the Modern World" (24 lectures)^[12]

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

1. "Faculty | David R Stone". Usnwc.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
2. "K-Statement -- Nov. 6, 2008/Vol. 31, No. 9".
3. "Past winners of the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize". The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
4. "THS Prizes".
5. Faculty: David R. Stone Archived 2017-05-13 at the Wayback Machine U.S. Naval War College. Retrieved 2017-05-25
6. David R. Stone goodreads.com. Cited on 2017-05-25
7. Reviews of A Military History of Russia include:

   • Uhler, Walter C. (2007). "A Military History of Russia From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya (review)". The Journal of Military History. 71 (2): 542–543. doi:10.1353/jmh.2007.0163. S2CID 162347594.
   • Keep, John (July 2008). "A Military History of Russia, from Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya by David R. Stone (review)". Slavonic and East European Review. 86 (3): 550–552.
8. Willems, Bastiaan (2014). "The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945, by Stone, David M., ed. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Publishers, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84884-052-2". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 27 (2): 305–307. doi:10.1080/13518046.2014.906822. S2CID 146550199.
9. Reviews of The Russian Army in the Great War include:

   • Rielage, Dale C. (2017). "The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917". Naval War College Review. 70 (2). ProQuest 1878354759.
   • Sanborn, Joshua A. (2018). "The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917. By David R. Stone. ( Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. Pp. viii, 359. $34.95.)". The Historian. 80 (1): 171–172. doi:10.1111/hisn.12816. S2CID 218498661.
   • Marshall, Alex (2016). "The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917". Revolutionary Russia. 28 (1): 114–117. doi:10.1080/09546545.2016.1169002. S2CID 148374428.
   • Steinburg, John W. (2016). "The Russian army in the Great War: the Eastern Front, 1914–1917; Imperial apocalypse: the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire". First World War Studies. 7 (3): 332–334. doi:10.1080/19475020.2017.1288223. S2CID 164951649.
   • Petrone, Karen (2017). "David R. Stone, The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front 1914-1917 Lawrence, Kansas University Press, 2015, vii, 359 pages". The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (18). doi:10.4000/pipss.4270.
10. "The Great Courses".
11. "World War II Battlefield Europe".
12. "War in the Modern World".