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'Kremlinology' is the study and analysis of Soviet and today Russian politics and policies based on efforts to understand the inner workings of an extremely opaque central government, named after the Kremlin, the seat of the Russian/Soviet government. 'Kremlinologist' refers to media, academic and commentary experts that specialized in the study of Kremlinology. 'Sovietology'/'Sovietologist' describes specialists of the country more broadly.
During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about the country forced Western analysts to "read between the lines" and to use the tiniest tidbits, such as the removal of portraits, the rearranging of chairs, positions at the reviewing stand for parades in Red Square, and other indirect signs to try to understand what was happening in internal Soviet politics.
The term "Kremlinology" is still in use in application to the study of decision-making processes in the politics of the Russian Federation, and it has also been used in the context of other similarly closed regimes such as China and North Korea.

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Notable Kremlinologists and Sovietologists

See also

Notable Kremlinologists and Sovietologists

★ Zbigniew Brzezinski

★ Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (French)

★ Stephen Cohen

★ Marshall Goldman

★ William Hyland

★ George Kennan

★ William Mandel

★ Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

★ Mark Palmer

★ Richard Pipes

★ Condoleezza Rice

★ Dmitri Simes

★ Stephen Sestanovich

★ Marshall D. Shulman

★ Llewellyn Thompson, Robert Kennedy's Kremlinologist

★ Robert C. Tucker Biographer of Stalin and former head of Princeton Russian Studies program.

★ Adam Ulam (brother of Stanislaw Ulam), head of the Russian Research Center at Stanford University for 16 years.

See also

★ Soviet–United States relations

★ Russo–United States relations

★ Team B

★ Predictions of Soviet collapse