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

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

Biographies

  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Nikita Khrushchev

Textbooks

  • 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

  • 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)

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kort". Retrieved 2019-11-03.


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