Daniel Stotland

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

Areas of Expertise

Russia and the Soviet Union; Modern Central and Eastern Europe; Military History; Political Culture in Europe’s “Short” Twentieth Century; Totalitarian Systems; Modernity and

Traditionalism; Continuities and Breaks in Russian History; Eastern European Borderlands; Elite Formation; Foreign Policy; The Soviet Bloc in Comparative and Transnational Perspective.

Daniel Stotland

Dr. Stotland is an associate professor in the Security Studies and International Affairs Department.

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

Historiographical review of a manuscript: Elizabeth Harry's Permanent Revolution: A Study of the Early Soviet State in The Russian Review, Vol 78, No 3, (July 2019): p.519

“OSS and the Russian Near Abroad in Wartime (1941-1945)” International Journal of Russian Studies, Volume 11, Number 2 (July 2022):144-159.

Two entries in Combating Terrorism in the 21st Century: American Laws, Strategies, and Agencies. (Eds., William Lahneman, etc (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO, September 2022).

“From Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin: the Enduring Cyclicality in Russian Modernization and State-Building Paradigm” Russian Politics Volume 10, Number 2 (June, 2025): 186-208.

Sole-authored Manuscript

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

Conferences

“A More Perfect Union: The Post-War Consensus of the Soviet Governing Elite,” Presenter at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge: April 2013.

“The Appanage Secretaries: The Dilemmas of the Autonomy and Control within the Soviet Governing Elite, 1941- 1945,” Presenter at the Southern Historical Association, St. Louis, MO: November 2013.

“The Great Reawakening: 1943 as the First Year of the Cold War,” Presenter at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Alexandria, VA: April 2011.

“The Heretics and the Believers: Dynamics of Ideology and Compromise within the CPSU,” Presenter at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge: April 2011.

“Revolutionaries and Engineers: Enduring Problems of Russian State,” Presenter and roundtable participant at the Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MI: November 2010

“Issues in Post-Communist Political Economy and in Social Theory,” Chair/Discussant of panel at the Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MI: November 2010

"The Congress of Victors: 1952 and the Birth of the Soviet Governing Consensus," Presenter and roundtable participant at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlotte, NC, March, 2018.

“The Crucible of the Soviet Party-State: Destruction and Rebirth of the Communist Party during Operation Barbarossa, 1941-1942,” Presenter and roundtable participant at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Mobile, AL: March 2019

“From Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin: the Enduring Cyclicality in Russian Modernization and State-Building Paradigm,” Presenter and roundtable participant at the North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, New York City, April 5th, 2025.

Symposia and Local Presentations

“Ukraine: The Bleeding Borderland,” Lecture presented at the Feed Your Head series, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL: March 2014.

“Audie Murphy: War and Peace,” Lecture presented to the Veterans Association, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL: November 2014.

“The Cold War and its Aftermath,” Lecture presented at the request of the Embry-Riddle Language Institute (ERLI), Daytona Beach, FL: April 2016.

“The Shoah: Destruction of European Jews,” Lecture presented at the request of Professor Jessica McKee, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL: November 2019.

“Chechnya and Frank Herbert’s Dune,” Lecture presented, annually, at the request of Professor Ashley Lear, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL: October, 2017-2025.

“WW1 and the Roots of Modern Totalitarianism” Lecture presented at the request of Professor Taylor Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL: September 2018, 2022.

American Historical Association

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Recipient – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Thank a Professor recognition, Spring 2025.

Recipient – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University CTLE Course Design grant, 2021.

Recipient – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University grant to carry out archival research in the National Archives and Records Administration, July 2019.

Recipient – Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award: May 2014

Recipient - American Councils for International Education Dissertation Fellowship: June 2007

Recipient - Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies Dissertation Fellowship: August 2006