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

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. He teaches at

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Biography

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

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

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

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. He lives in

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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 1944 births Living people {{Russia-studies-bio-stub