Roger R Reese

Roger R. Reese graduated with a BA in history from Texas A&M in 1981. He then served three years in the United States Army after which he earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He is Professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on European, Russian, Soviet, and modern military history since 1990. His research specialty is the social history of the Soviet Red Army and Imperial Russian Army. He has authored seventeen refereed articles and book chapters, and six books on the Russian/Soviet Army: Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers (Kansas, 1996), The Soviet Military Experience (Routledge, 2000), Red Commanders (Kansas, 2005), Why Stalin’s Soldiers Fought (Kansas, 2011). The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 (Kansas, 2019) which won the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr book prize from the World War One Historical Association and his most recent book Russia’s Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine.