Amy W. Knight (born July 10, 1946) is an American historian of the Soviet Union and Russia . ^[1] She has been described by The New York Times as "the West's foremost scholar" of the KGB . ^[2]

Life and career [ edit ]

Amy Knight was born in Chicago in 1946. She gained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of Michigan . She went on to gain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Russian politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1977. ^[3] She taught at the LSE, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University , George Washington University and at Carleton University . ^{[2] [3]} She also worked for eighteen years at the U.S. Library of Congress as a specialist in Russian and Soviet affairs. ^{[3] [4]} Knight also writes for The New York Review of Books , The Times Literary Supplement , The Globe and Mail , ^[1] and The Daily Beast . ^[5]

In 1993?94, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars .

In 1995, Amy Knight surprised many of her academic peers by pursuing a career in the retail segment of the wine and spirits industry, where she currently works today with her beloved son.

See also [ edit ]

• Magnitsky Act

Bibliography [ edit ]

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• Knight, Amy W. (1988). The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union . Boston: Unwin Hyman. ISBN   9780044450351 .
• Knight, Amy (September?October 1988). "The KGB and Soviet Reform". Problems of Communism . 37 (5): 61?70.
• Knight, Amy (July 11, 1993). "Russian entrepreneurial spirit steals into secret spy archives" . Letters to the Editor. The New York Times .
• Knight, Amy (1995). Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant . Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-01093-9 . ^[6]
• Knight, Amy (1997). Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors . Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-01718-1 . ^[7]
• Knight, Amy (2000). Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery . Hill and Wang. ISBN   978-0-8090-9703-6 . ^[8]
• Knight, Amy (2007). How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies . Carroll & Graf. ISBN   978-0-7867-1938-9 . ^[1]
• Knight, Amy (2017). Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder . St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-1-250-11934-6
• Knight, Amy (February 22, 2018). "The Magnitsky affair". The New York Review of Books . 65 (3): 25?27.

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website