Michael Kort
Encyclopedia
Michael Kort is an American historian, academic, and author who studies and has written extensively about the history of the Soviet Union
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He lives in Massachusetts
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. He teaches at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
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Biography
Michael Kort was born in 1944. He received a B.A. in history from John Hopkins University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian history from New York UniversityNew York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
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He lives in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
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Textbooks
- The Soviet Union: History, Culture, Geography
- The Soviet Colossus: A History of the U.S.S.R., 1990
- 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