Sovietologyn.
/səʊvɪəˈtɒlədʒi//sɒvɪəˈtɒlədʒi/ Now historical.
The study and analysis of affairs and events in the U.S.S.R.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > study of Soviet politics or affairs
Sovietology1958
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 595/2 Many works of fuller and more detailed scholarship are.. already becoming available as ‘Sovietology’ develops more and more into a major industry.
1968 Soviet Stud. XIX. 467 The change in the function of Soviet ideology..could then be matched by a change in the function of Sovietology, at least in the field of theoretical-ideological controversy.
1979 Dædalus Winter 121 There are cracks in sovietology as well as in the Soviet monolith itself.
Derivatives
ˌSovieˈtologist n. a student of Soviet affairs.
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the world > people > ethnicities > race > ethnoscience > [noun] > specific races > person
sinologist1814
Indianist1817
sinologue1821
Americanist1852
Indianologist1859
gypsyologist1863
occidentalist1877
Africanist1880
Japanologist1881
Turcologist1881
tziganologue1884
Indologian1897
Persianist1903
Indologist1904
Tziganologist1909
Hispanist1934
Mayanist1950
Sovietologist1958
Tibetologist1964
1958 Spectator 3 Jan. 10/2 The Sovietologist really can help his listeners by explaining what has happened.
1971 H. Trevelyan Worlds Apart xx. 237 The Sovietologists of the Western press, working on the documents in London or Washington, were forced by the nature of their occupation to draw conclusions, not always justified by the facts.
ˌSovietoˈlogical adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [adjective] > study of Soviet politics or affairs
Sovietological1958
1958 Spectator 3 Jan. 13/3 A complete service with serious Sovietological analysis.
1976 Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 16/6 A newspaper photograph showing the arrival of President Tsedenbal of Mongolia at Moscow Airport has been examined in detail by the ‘Way of the World’ Sovietological department.
ˌSovietoˈlogically adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [adverb] > in Sovietological manner
Sovietologically1963
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 3/1 Mr. Dudinstev's brief excursion into fantasy may be sovietologically significant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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