Alexander Rabinowitch

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

Rabinowitch is a son of the biophysicist Eugene Rabinowitch . He played a pioneering role in the academic analysis of the two revolutions of 1917. In 1991 he was one of the first scientists from the West to gain access to Soviet archives in order to reconstruct the history of the Communist Party. From 1993 he was also able to see the former KGB archives. Other focal points of his research were the Soviet Union in World War II and Soviet-American relations. Since 2013 he has been a research fellow at the St. Petersburg Institute for History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is working on a fourth volume on the history of the Soviet Union, which will extend from 1919 to 1920.

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
  • German The Soviet Power: The Revolution of the Bolsheviks 1917 , 2012 ISBN 388634097X
  • The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd , 2007 ISBN 0253220424

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SURNAME Rabinowitch, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH London