Alex Rabinowitch, a world renowned authority on the history of the Russian Revolution, first came to Indiana University to teach in the 1968-1969 academic year. During a distinguished career that included the publication of The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd and Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising, Alex taught countless numbers of undergraduates and trained over twenty doctoral students in Soviet history. He also excelled in his service contributions to the university as Dean of International Programs from 1986-1993, as Director of the Russian and East European Institute from 1975-1984, and as Director of Graduate Studies… in the department of history.Rabinowitch is also the coeditor of Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture, edited with Sheila Fitzpatrick and and Richard Stites.He is now an advisor to the Russian Archives project.