Kremlinology

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Kremlinology on Wikipedia

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English Kremlin

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Latin -o-bor.

English -o-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

English -ology

English Kremlinology

Kremlinology (uncountable)

(politics) The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the USSR.
- 2024 January 7, “Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran … how far could war in the Middle East spread?”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:
  Like the Kremlinology of the cold war, the unpacking of Nasrallah’s careful ambiguities is as much art as science. Was he smiling more, some asked last week, as others sought to identify the audiences for different parts of his messaging.
(by extension) The study of the internal politics of any powerful and secretive organization.
- 2010 September 2, Ben Smith, “Barbour called Murdoch (not Ailes)”, in Ben Smith Blog‎^[2], Politico:
  The reason Barbour's comment is meaningful is that he's saying Murdoch — and not Fox chief Roger Ailes, as some speculated — was the driving force behind the contribution. News Corp. has been at pains all along to stress that the money came from the parent company, not from the network, in part to damp down the perpetual reports of a rift between Murdoch and Ailes. At least some of Murdoch's family are at open war with Ailes, and the Kremlinology isn't the sort of thing a giant public company wants to encourage.
- 2019 July 1, Harry McGee, Fiach Kelly, “Bruised Sinn Féin looks inward as it takes a dive in the May elections”, in The Irish Times‎^[3]:
  Those in the party are also quick to dismiss the sometimes necessary Kremlinology needed to discern its strategic shifts.

study of Soviet / Russian politics