Amy Knight Explained

Amy Knight
Birth Date:	10 July 1945
Birth Place:	Chicago
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Author, academic, historian
Alma Mater:	London School of Economics
Workplaces:	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]

Life and career

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. She also worked for eighteen years at the U.S. Library of Congress as a specialist in Russian and Soviet affairs.^[4] Knight also writes for The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Globe and Mail, and The Daily Beast.^[5]

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

See also

• Magnitsky Act

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Clibbon. Jennifer. Why is Russia still planting 'sleeper' agents abroad?. CBC News. June 22, 2011. July 14, 2010.
2. News: Lloyd. John. The Logic of Vladimir Putin. June 22, 2011. The New York Times Magazine. March 19, 2000.
3. News: Sheppard. J.. Amy Knight on Putin, Russia's democratic future. September 13, 2012. The Globe and Mail. December 4, 2007.
4. News: Carney. James. Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's New Best Friends. https://web.archive.org/web/20081215164923/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971981,00.html. dead. December 15, 2008. June 22, 2011. Time. December 17, 1990.
5. Web site: Amy Knight. The Daily Beast. December 29, 2018.
6. News: Kaplan. Fred. Mass grave found near Moscow Zoo. June 22, 2011. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. August 13, 1994.
7. News: Finder. Joseph. By Any Other Name. June 22, 2011. The New York Times. June 9, 1996.
8. News: Fitzpatrick. Sheila. Stalin. In the Hall. With the Revolver.. June 22, 2011. The New York Times. September 12, 1999.