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. 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 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 The Vietnam War Reexamined Weapons of Mass Destruction The Handbook of the Middle East Russia (Nations in Transition) Central Asian Republics (Nations in Transition) Sources Boston University faculty Historians of Russia Johns Hopkins University alumni New York University alumni Historians of the Soviet Union 20th-century American historians 1944 births Living people