Alexander Rabinowitch

Alexander Rabinowitch ( born August 30, 1934 in London) is an American historian and professor emeritus at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is considered an expert on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Rabinowitch is a son of Eugene Rabinowitch biophysicist. He took a leading role in the academic study of the two revolutions of 1917. In 1991 he received one of the first scientists in the West have access to Soviet archives to reconstruct the history of the Communist Party. From 1993, he could see also the former KGB archives. Other focal points of his research formed the Soviet Union in the Second World War and the Soviet-American relations.

Works

• Prelude to Revolution The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising, 1968 ISBN 0253206618
• Revolution and Politics in Russia, 1973 ISBN 0253390419
• The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, 1976 ISBN 193185985X

• The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd, 2007 ISBN 0253220424

• German Soviet power: The first year, 2010, ISBN 3886340902

Source

• Mehring -verlag.de