Michael Kort (born 1944) is an American historian, academic, and author who studies and has written extensively about the history of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. He teaches at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

Biography

Michael Kort was born in 1944. He received a B.A. in history from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian history from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. He lives in

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

Bibliography

Biographies

*''Mikhail Gorbachev'' *''Nikita Khrushchev''

Textbooks

*''The Soviet Union: History, Culture, Geography'' *''The Soviet Colossus: A History of the U.S.S.R.'', 1985 *''Modernization and Revolution in China'' (co‑author with June Grasso and Jay Corrin), 1991 *''The Columbia Guide to the Cold War'', 1998 *''The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb'', 2007

Other nonfiction

*''The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union'', 1992 *''Marxism in Power'', 1993 *''A Brief History of Russia, 2008'' *''The Vietnam War Reexamined'' *''Weapons of Mass Destruction'' *''The Handbook of the Middle East'' *''Russia (Nations in Transition)'' *''Central Asian Republics (Nations in Transition)''

Sources

Boston University faculty Historians of Russia Johns Hopkins University alumni New York University alumni Historians of the Soviet Union 20th-century American historians {{Russia-studies-bio-stub