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Michael Kort

{{Short description|American historian (born 1944)}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/cgs/profile/michael-kort/ |title=Kort |accessdate=2019-11-03 }}

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
  • 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 {{ISBN|978-1107628175}}
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • The Handbook of the Middle East
  • Russia (Nations in Transition)
  • Central Asian Republics (Nations in Transition)

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Category:Boston University faculty

Category:Historians of Russia

Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni

Category:New York University alumni

Category:Historians of the Soviet Union

Category:20th-century American historians

Category:1944 births

Category:Living people

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