Sovietology

[ soh-vee-i-tol-uh-jee ]

noun

1. Kremlinology.

Other Words From

• Sovi·et·olo·gist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sovietology¹

First recorded in 1960–65; soviet + -o- + -logy

Example Sentences

In addition to Sovietology, he became an expert on the twilight stage of the roughly 400-year period when Britain was part of the Roman Empire.

From Wall Street Journal

“What used to be known as American Sovietology in the past has also changed; it has different goals,” said Mr. Pivovar, an expert on émigré history who was a Fulbright Scholar in 1993 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, one of the centers of Russian studies in the United States during the Cold War.

From New York Times

Old hands in Sovietology have never seen anything like it.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the author's twin brother Zhores, a distinguished biochemist and author, was exiled in 1973, he managed to send Roy from Britain scores of important works of Western Sovietology that were unavailable in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive