Alexander Rabinowitch (born August 30, 1934) is an American historian. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the Indiana University Bloomington, where he taught from 1968 until 1999, and Affiliated Research Scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, since 2013. He is recognized internationally as a leading expert on the Bolsheviks, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War.[1]