Alexander Rabinowitch was Professor of History at Indiana University from 1968 until 1999, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences since 2013. He is the author of Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising (Indiana University Press, 1991), and The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd (Indiana University Press, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Russia in the Era of NEP.