Amy Knight | |
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Born | |
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 |
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 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.
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