Michael Kort


Michael Kort 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.
He lives in Massachusetts.

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, 1991
  • The Columbia Guide to the Cold War, 1998
  • The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb, 2007

Other nonfiction