Michael Kort (born 1944) is an American historian, academic, and author who studies and has written extensively about the history of the Soviet Union. He teaches at Boston University.
Biography
[edit]Michael Kort was born in 1944. He received a B.A. in history from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian history from New York University.[1]
He lives in Massachusetts.
Bibliography
[edit]Biographies
[edit]- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Nikita Khrushchev
Textbooks
[edit]- The Soviet Union: History, Culture, Geography
- The Soviet Colossus: A History of the U.S.S.R., 1985[1]
- Modernization and Revolution in China (co‑author with June Grasso and Jay Corrin), 1991[1]
- The Columbia Guide to the Cold War, 1998[1]
- The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb, 2007[1]
Other nonfiction
[edit]- The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1992
- Marxism in Power, 1993
- A Brief History of Russia, 2008[1]
- The Vietnam War Reexamined ISBN 978-1107628175
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- The Handbook of the Middle East
- Russia (Nations in Transition)
- Central Asian Republics (Nations in Transition)