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.^[1]

He lives in Massachusetts.

Biographies edit

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nikita Khrushchev

Textbooks edit

• The Soviet Union: History, Culture, Geography
• The Soviet Colossus: A History of the U.S.S.R., 1985^[1]
• Modernization and Revolution in China (co‑author with June Grasso and Jay Corrin), 1991^[1]
• The Columbia Guide to the Cold War, 1998^[1]
• The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb, 2007^[1]

Other nonfiction edit

• The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1992
• Marxism in Power, 1993
• A Brief History of Russia, 2008^[1]
• The Vietnam War Reexamined ISBN 978-1107628175
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The Handbook of the Middle East
• Russia (Nations in Transition)
• Central Asian Republics (Nations in Transition)