Sovietology

Sovietology refers to the interdisciplinary study of the Soviet Union as a political, economic, social, and ideological system.

In the scholarly literature, the term Sovietology has been used with two distinct meanings. In its narrower sense, it refers primarily to the study of Soviet politics and is understood as a field or subdiscipline of political science. In a broader sense, Sovietology is used to mean "Soviet studies". In this usage, it designates an aggregate of subfields from several disciplines, united by a common focus on the Soviet Union or the communist area. Another term, Kremlinology, referred to the study and interpretation of the Soviet government policies, specifically as a method of inference developed to analyze decision-making within an opaque and highly secretive political system.

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