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.

• Magnitsky Act

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• 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.