Rex Arvin Wade (born October 9, 1936) is an American historian and author who has written extensively about the 1917 Russian Revolution. He has taught courses in Russian and Soviet history at George Mason University since 1986.

Career

Born in Piedmont, Kansas, Wade taught at Wisconsin State University, LaCrosse from 1963 to 1968, the University of Hawaiʻi from 1968 to 1986, and as visiting professor at the University of North Carolina, University of Nebraska, and Portland State University, before joining the George Mason faculty in 1986. Wade has authored numerous books on the subject of the 1917 February and October Revolutions, among which include: He co-edited Politics and Society in Provincial Russia: Saratov, 1590-1917 (1989), and edited Documents of Soviet History (Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1992, Vol. III, 1994). He retired in 2006 but is currently planning a book, The Long Revolution: Russia 1880-1930.