David R. Stone, Ph.D.
Professor Strategy and Policy Department

Biography
Professor David R. Stone, the William E. Odom Professor of Russian Studies, 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.
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
- Cold War
- India
- Russia
- WWI
- WWII
Professional Highlights
Chair, Strategy and Policy Department, Naval War College
Professor of Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College
The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
Moncado Prize
The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945
A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya
Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933
Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University
Ph.D in History, Yale University
AB in History and Mathematics, Wabash College
Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1997, History
B.A., Wabash College, 1991, History and Mathematics
Research Contributions and Publications
Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933
2000
University Press of Kansas
Several dozen articles and book chapters
Awards and Decorations
Winner of Moncado Award of the Society for Military History
2012
Winner of the inaugural 2001 Best First Book Prize of the Historical Society
Co-winner of the 2001 Shulman Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of Kansas State University's Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2001
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