# Michael Kort

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{{Short description|American historian (born 1944)}}
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'''Michael Kort''' (born 1944) is an American historian, academic, and author who studies and has written extensively about the history of the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union). He teaches at [Boston University](/source/Boston_University).

==Biography==
Michael Kort was born in 1944. He received a B.A. in history from [Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian history from [New York University](/source/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](/source/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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