Daniel Stotland

Title
Associate Professor
Email
Department
Security Studies and International Affairs Dept
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

History of Russia/Soviet Union
Daniel Stotland

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Maryland-University College
  • B.A. - Bachelor of Arts in History: Marketing, University of Maryland-University College

  • GCS 322: Modern Russian History
  • GCS 326: Russian-U.S. Relations
  • SS 110: World History

SS 110: World History

SS 325: Modern Russian History: Peter to Stalin

SS 325: History of the Cold War

SS 325: History of Totalitarianism

SS 337: Globalization and World Politics

SS 325: Military History: Sparta to Stalingrad

SS 336: Modern Middle East in World Affairs


Peer-reviewed Articles

Review of M. M. Narinskii and S. Dembskii, eds., Mezhdunarodnyi krizis 1939 goda v traktovkakh rossiiskikh i pol’skikh istorikov (Moscow: Aspekt Press, 2009) in Kritka: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 13, no 3, (Summer 2012): 745-751.

“Pragmatists and Believers: Dynamics of Ideology and Compromise within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1941-1942,” The Soviet and the Post-Soviet Review, Volume 40, Number 1 (April 2013): 38-63.

“Cadres Decide Everything: The Enduring Dilemmas of the Party-State and the Soviet Service Class,” International Journal of Russian Studies, Volume 3, Number 1 (January 2014):1-19.

"A More Perfect Union: The Construction of the Post-War Consensus of the Soviet Governing Elite," The Soviet and the Post-Soviet Review, Volume 41, Number 2 (July 2014): 121–145.

"The War Within: Factional Strife and Politics of Control in the Soviet Party State (1944-1948)” Russian History, Volume 42, Number 3 (October 2015): 343-369.


Sole-authored Manuscript

The Struggle for the Soul of the Soviet Party-State, 1941-1952. (Latham: Lexington Books, 2017)



American Historical Association

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies


2012-2013 Outstanding Teacher Award (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences)