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]
Amy Knight | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 10, 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Author, academic, historian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and Carleton University |
| Notable works | The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors |
Life and career
editAmy 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.
See also
editBibliography
edit- 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- ^ a b c Clibbon, Jennifer (July 14, 2010). "Why is Russia still planting 'sleeper' agents abroad?". CBC News. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ^ a b Lloyd, John (March 19, 2000). "The Logic of Vladimir Putin". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ^ a b c Sheppard, J. (December 4, 2007). "Amy Knight on Putin, Russia's democratic future". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
- ^ Carney, James (December 17, 1990). "Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's New Best Friends". Time. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ^ "Amy Knight". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
- ^ Kaplan, Fred (August 13, 1994). "Mass grave found near Moscow Zoo". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ^ Finder, Joseph (June 9, 1996). "By Any Other Name". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (September 12, 1999). "Stalin. In the Hall. With the Revolver". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2011.