DAVID STONE
Professor of history
David Stone is a professor of history, award-winning author and a faculty member of the Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies. He specializes in Russia and the Soviet Union, South Asia and military history.
Stone's first book, "Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933," was a selection of the History Book Club. It also was named the winner of the 2001 inaugural Best First Book prize of the Historical Society and was co-winner of the 2001 Shulman Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He recently published "A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya," and was named one of "America's Top Young Historians" by the History News Network. He is also the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters on Russian/Soviet military history and foreign policy.
His current research includes Leon Trotsky and his role in the creation of the Soviet army, international finance and the collapse of the Soviet system, and the Soviet military in the run-up to World War II. Stone earned a doctorate in history from Yale University and bachelor's degrees in history and mathematics from Wabash College.
Stone, who earned a doctorate from Yale University, joined K-State in 1999. He has been recognized for his teaching with the 2001 K-State Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Stone
can be reached by phone at 785-532-2978, or via e-mail at stone@k-state.edu