Definitions
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- noun The study of the policies of the Soviet or Russian government.
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- noun The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the
USSR . - noun The study of the internal politics of any powerful and secretive organization.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since last year's disputed presidential election led to a crackdown on both dissent and independent reporting in Iran, analysts trying to understand the hidden inner workings of the Islamic Republic have thrown themselves into the kind of close reading of state media reports that used to be known as Kremlinology when the inscrutable power structure under the microscope was the one that ran the old Soviet Union.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Does everyone remember "Kremlinology" wherein everyone tried to determine the future of Russian politics by ascertaining who was sitting next to whom during the Mayday parades?
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If they can have "Kremlinology", then the word "Euology" must be just as valid.
Euology Richard 2006
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Interpreting what the Russian president is thinking, and where he is taking his country, has degenerated into the sort of "Kremlinology" that characterized the Soviet era.
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Interpreting what the Russian president is thinking, and where he is taking his country, has degenerated into the sort of "Kremlinology" that characterized the Soviet era.
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Cameron wrote in the Wall Street Journal today that he wants to move beyond the "Kremlinology" that dogged some of his predecessors 'relations with U.S. leaders.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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Cameron wrote in the Wall Street Journal today that he wants to move beyond the "Kremlinology" that dogged some of his predecessors 'relations with U.S. leaders.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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The foreign secretary said he would not indulge in "Kremlinology" because he has a clear position.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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The foreign secretary said he would not indulge in "Kremlinology" because he has a clear position.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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The result is that the majority of efforts at assessing the character of Bashar Assad - and his country's trajectory - have devolved into a kind of Syrian-style 'Kremlinology', as much based on inference as hard facts based on a solid knowledge of the man.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2008
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