About the Author

About the Author

Knight has written over 30 scholarly articles and has contributed numerous pieces on Russian politics and history to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and The Daily Beast. Her articles have also been published in The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Published Books

Published Books

Amy Knight's latest book Orders to Kill: the Putin Regime and Political Murder, appeared in September 2017. A new British edition, with a postscript, has just been published by Biteback under the title Putin's Killers. Amy’s previous books include How the Cold War Began: the Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies, Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin’s Greatest Mystery, Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB’s Successors, Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant, and The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union.
Reviews

Reviews

“Amy Knight is one of the most meticulous and ground-breaking scholars of Soviet history.” Simon Sebag Montefiore                                                                    “Her account is the most impressive and thorough we have.” New York Times Book Review.