Alfred J. Rieber

Alfred J. Rieber has been teaching and writing Russian and Soviet history for the past fifty years. A member of the original group of American exchange students to the Soviet Union in 1958-59 he has returned many times with the support of the Guggenheim, ACLS, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Council for Research in Eastern Europe Foundations and IREX.He has written ten books and fifty articles in scholarly books and journals. He was the recipient of the E.Harris Harbison Award of the Danforth Foundation as one of the ten best teachers in America in 1966. A collection of his essays supplemented by chapters written from fresh archival sources entitled "The Russian Imperial Project. Politics, Economic Development and Social Fragmentation" will be published next year by the University of Toronto Press.He is currently University Professor Emeritus at the Central European University in Budapest.