{{Short description|American historian (born 1944)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''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.<ref name=Kort>{{cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/cgs/profile/michael-kort/ |title=Kort |accessdate=2019-11-03 }}</ref>
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<ref name=Kort/> *''Modernization and Revolution in China'' (co‑author with June Grasso and Jay Corrin), 1991<ref name=Kort/> *''The Columbia Guide to the Cold War'', 1998<ref name=Kort/> *''The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb'', 2007<ref name=Kort/>
===Other nonfiction=== *''The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union'', 1992 *''Marxism in Power'', 1993 *''A Brief History of Russia'', 2008<ref name=Kort/> *''[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/vietnam-war-reexamined/038E514896A0745CBF02F4A1CE848939 The Vietnam War Reexamined]'', 2017 *''Weapons of Mass Destruction'' *''The Handbook of the Middle East'' *''Russia (Nations in Transition)'' *''Central Asian Republics (Nations in Transition)''
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