{{short description|American historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Amy Knight | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|07|10}} | birth_place = Chicago | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, academic, historian | spouse = | alma_mater = London School of Economics | influences = | workplaces = Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and Carleton University | main_interests = | notable_works = ''The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union''<br />''Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder''<br />''Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant''<br />''Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors'' | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_size = | footnotes = }}
'''Amy W. Knight''' (born July 10, 1946) is an American historian of the Soviet Union and Russia.<ref name=CBC>{{cite web|last=Clibbon|first=Jennifer|title=Why is Russia still planting 'sleeper' agents abroad?|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/why-is-russia-still-planting-sleeper-agents-abroad-1.917768|publisher=CBC News|access-date=June 22, 2011|date=July 14, 2010}}</ref> She has been described by ''The New York Times'' as "the West's foremost scholar" of the KGB.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|last=Lloyd|first=John|title=The Logic of Vladimir Putin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/magazine/the-logic-of-vladimir-putin.html?pagewanted=8&src=pm|access-date=June 22, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine|date=March 19, 2000}}</ref>
==Life and career== Amy Knight was born in Chicago in 1946. She gained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of Michigan. She went on to gain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Russian politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1977.<ref name="GaM">{{cite news|last=Sheppard|first=J.|title=Amy Knight on Putin, Russia's democratic future|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/amy-knight-on-putin-russias-democratic-future/article1091017/?page=all|access-date=September 13, 2012|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=December 4, 2007}}</ref> She taught at the LSE, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and at Carleton University.<ref name=NYT /><ref name="GaM" /> She also worked for eighteen years at the U.S. Library of Congress as a specialist in Russian and Soviet affairs.<ref name="GaM" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Carney|first=James|title=Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's New Best Friends|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971981,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215164923/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971981,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 15, 2008|access-date=June 22, 2011|newspaper=Time|date=December 17, 1990}}</ref> Knight also writes for ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Globe and Mail'',<ref name=CBC /> and ''The Daily Beast''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amy Knight|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/amy-knight|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=December 29, 2018}}</ref>
In 1993–94, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
==See also== *Magnitsky Act
==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list|date=July 2018}}
*{{cite book |author=Knight, Amy W. |title=The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union |url=https://archive.org/details/kgbpolicepolitic0000knig |url-access=registration |location=Boston |publisher=Unwin Hyman |year=1988 <!--isbn=0044450354-->|isbn=9780044450351 }} *{{cite journal |author=Knight, Amy |date=September–October 1988 |title=The KGB and Soviet Reform |journal=Problems of Communism |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=61–70}} *{{cite news |author=Knight, Amy |title=Russian entrepreneurial spirit steals into secret spy archives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/opinion/l-russian-entrepreneurial-spirit-steals-into-secret-spy-archives-025593.html <!--accessdate=June 22, 2011--> |department=Letters to the Editor |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 11, 1993}} *{{cite book|last=Knight|first=Amy|title=Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant|year=1995|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-01093-9}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Kaplan|first=Fred|title=Mass grave found near Moscow Zoo|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QNpRAAAAIBAJ&pg=3571,5721703&dq=amy-knight&hl=en|access-date=June 22, 2011|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 13, 1994}}</ref> *{{cite book|last=Knight|first=Amy|title=Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors|year=1997|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-01718-1}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Finder|first=Joseph|title=By Any Other Name|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/09/books/by-any-other-name.html|access-date=June 22, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 9, 1996}}</ref> *{{cite book|last=Knight|first=Amy|title=Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery|year=2000|publisher=Hill and Wang|isbn=978-0-8090-9703-6}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Sheila|title=Stalin. In the Hall. With the Revolver.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/reviews/990912.12fitzpat.html|access-date=June 22, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 12, 1999}}</ref> *{{cite book|last=Knight|first=Amy|title=How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies|year=2007|publisher=Carroll & Graf|isbn=978-0-7867-1938-9}}<ref name=CBC /> *Knight, Amy (2017). ''Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder''. St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|978-1-250-11934-6}} *{{cite journal |author=Knight, Amy |date=February 22, 2018 |title=The Magnitsky affair |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=25–27}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|http://amyknight.org/}}
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