Post-Soviet studies, also known as post-Soviet area studies or Former Soviet Union (FSU) studies, is a field of study within sociology and political science that emerged out of Soviet studies and Sovietology following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[1] The field encompasses a broad range of studies in the area of the former Soviet Union, including within Slavic studies[2] and Central Eurasian studies,[3] and the study of specific post-Soviet states, including: Armenianology,[4] Baltic studies, Belarusian studies, Central Asian studies, Georgian studies, Russian studies,[5] Ukrainian studies, and others.

Broader themes in post-Soviet studies include the role of postcolonial analysis,[6] and the relevance of analysis in context of the former Soviet Union as studies of the region progress into the post-Soviet era.[7]

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  1. ^ Bonnell, Victoria E.; Breslauer, George W. (1 December 1998). "Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies". Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  2. ^ Sakwa, Richard (October 1999). "Postcommunist studies: once again through the looking glass (darkly)?". Review of International Studies. 25 (4): 709–719. doi:10.1017/S0260210599007093. S2CID 144164154.
  3. ^ Tomohiko, Uyama (2015). "The Contribution of Central Eurasian Studies to Russian and (Post-)Soviet Studies and Beyond". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 16 (2): 331–344. doi:10.1353/kri.2015.0020. ISSN 1538-5000. S2CID 159368915. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  4. ^ Kotchikian, Asbed (1 March 2006). "From Post-Soviet Studies to Armenianology" (PDF). Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. 14 (2): 303–311. doi:10.3200/demo.14.2.303-311.
  5. ^ Laitin, David D. (June 2000). "Post-Soviet Politics". Annual Review of Political Science. 3 (1): 117–148. doi:10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.117.
  6. ^ Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (May 2006). "Are You Postcolonial? To the Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Literatures". Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 121 (3): 828–829. doi:10.1632/S0030812900165903. S2CID 233315161.
  7. ^ Buckler, Julie A. (January 2009). "What Comes after 'Post-Soviet' in Russian Studies?". Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 124 (1): 251–263. doi:10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.251. S2CID 2240953.


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