History & Art History

Rex A. Wade joined the George Mason University faculty in 1986, after having taught at the University of Hawaii (1968-86), Wisconsin State University, LaCrosse (1963-68) and as visiting professor at the University of North Carolina, University of Nebraska, and Portland State University. He is the author of The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War (2001), The Russian Revolution, 1917 (2000; second edition, 2005), Red Guards and Workers’ Militias in the Russian Revolution (1984), and The Russian Search for Peace, 1917 (1969). He is editor of Revolutionary Russia; New Approaches (2004), co-editor of Politics and Society in Provincial Russia: Saratov, 1590-1917 (1989), editor of Documents of Soviet History (Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1992, Vol. III, 1994), and numerous articles dealing with the Russian revolution and revolutionary movement. He currently is working on two book projects —“Imagining Revolution” and “The Long Revolution: Russia 1880-1930.” In addition, he currently is Chair of the Faculty, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Russian and Soviet History, the Russian Revolution