David Stone
Pickett Professor of Military History
- Office: 318 Eisenhower Hall
- E-Mail: stone@ksu.edu
- Phone: (785) 532-2978
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Here at Kansas State, I regularly teach courses on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, India and South Asia, and Western civilization. My specialization is Russian/Soviet military history and foreign policy, particularly the 1920s and 1930s. I am currently working on a number of projects, including Leon Trotsky’s role in the creation of the Soviet military, Stalin's 1937 purge of the Red Army and its aftermath, and in the longer term a detailed study of the 1941 Battle of Moscow.
Select Publications
A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya. Praeger Security International, 2006.
Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933. Lawrence: 2000.
“The August 1925 Raid on Stolpce, Poland, and the Evolution of Soviet Active Intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security 21.3 (June 2006), pp. 331-341.
“The Prospect of War? Lev Trotskii, The Soviet Army, and the German Revolution in 1923,” The International History Review 25.4 (2003), pp. 799-817.
“Soviet Intelligence on Barbarossa: The Limits of Intelligence History,” in J. Siegel and P. Jackson, eds., Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society, Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005.
“Imperialism and Sovereignty: The League of Nations’ Drive to Control the Global Arms Trade,” Journal of Contemporary History 35.2 (April 2000), pp. 213-230.
“Tukhachevskii in Leningrad: Military Politics and Exile, 1928-1931,” Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies) 48.8 (December 1996), pp. 1365-86.