Amy Knight
Author of Beria
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Amy Knight has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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- Amy Knight earned her PhD degree in Russian politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1977. She has taught at the LSE, Johns Hopkins, SAIS, and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and also worked for eighteen years at the U.S. Library of Congress as a Soviet/Russian affairs specialist. In 1993-94, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Knight has written over 25 scholarly articles and has contributed numerous pieces on Russian politics and history to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. Her articles have also been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wilson Quarterly. From 2000 to 2006, Knight wrote regularly on Russian affairs for the Toronto Globe and Mail.
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3838. Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery, by Amy Knight (read 25 Dec 2003) I read this book because the event (the murder in Leningrad of Kirov on Dec 1, 1934), was discussed in A Broken World (read 21 Dec 2003). The biographical account of Kirov, who became a Politburo member in 1926 and at the time of his death was considered by some as a possible successor to Stalin, was not too interesting, but the events leading up to the murder, and subsequent investigation are the stuff of high drama. The murder was used by Stalin to inaugurate the Great Purges of the mid 1930s, and the unresolved question is whether Stalin had Kirov murdered or merely took advantage of the event to kill everybody he thought might think of being against him.… (more)
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