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Sovietology|səʊ-, ˌsɒvɪəˈtɒlədʒɪ| Also sovietology. [f. Soviet n. and a. + -ology.] The study and analysis of affairs and events in the U.S.S.R. So ˌSovieˈtologist, a student of Soviet affairs; ˌSovietoˈlogical a.; ˌSovietoˈlogically adv.
1958Spectator 3 Jan. 10/2 The Sovietologist really can help his listeners by explaining what has happened. Ibid. 13/3 A complete service with serious Sovietological analysis. 1958Times 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. 1963Ibid. 4 Jan. 3/1 Mr. Dudinstev's brief excursion into fantasy may be sovietologically significant. 1968Soviet Studies 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. 1971H. 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. 1976Daily 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. 1979Dædalus Winter 121 There are cracks in sovietology as well as in the Soviet monolith itself. |