politics
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, history
History (from Greek#REDIRECT Greek
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Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece
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, culture
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, economics
Economics () is a social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
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, and languages
A language is a structured system of communication
Communication (from Latin
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Communicatio ...
of Russia and its neighborhood, often grouped under Soviet and Communist studiesSoviet and Communist studies is the field of historical studies of the Soviet Union and other Communist states as well as of Communist parties such as the Communist Party USA that existed or still exist in some form in many countries, inside or outs ...
. Russian studies should not be confused with the study of the Russian literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia
Russia ( rus, link=no, Россия, Rossiya, ), or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe
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or linguistics, which is often a distinct department within universities.
Russian studies has become increasingly common in universities. In university, a Russian studies major
Major is a military rank
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includes many cultural classes teaching Russian politics, history, geography
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, linguistics, Russian language
Russian (, tr. ''russkiy yazyk'') is an East Slavic language
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, literature, and arts. Mysticism and folklore
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A tradition is a belief
A belief is an attitude
Attitude may refer to:
Philosophy and psychology
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is commonly studied, introduction of Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic
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, rule under the tsars and expansion of Russian empire
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, later rule under communism, history of the Soviet Union
The history of Soviet union and the Soviet Union reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic#Early years (1917–1920), Soviet Russia" and "Soviet Union" often are s ...
, and its collapse and studies about present-day Russia.
See also
*Area studies
Area studies (also regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geography, geographical, national/Federal government, federal, or culture, cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a gen ...
* Kremlinology
Kremlinology is the study and analysis of the politics and policies of the Soviet Union while Sovietology is the study of politics and policies of both the Soviet Union and former Communist states more generally. These two terms were synonymous unt ...
* List of Russian studies centersThe following is a list of academic research centers devoted to Russian studies, or Slavic studies, encompassing the area of the former Soviet Union, sometimes referred to as Eurasia:
# Arizona State University The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian ...
* Russian culture
The culture of the Russians
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* Slavic studies
Slavic studies (North America), Slavonic studies (Britain and Ireland) or Slavistics (borrowed from Russian ''славистика'' or Polish ''slawistyka'') is the academic field
An academic discipline or academic field is a subdivision of kn ...
* Byzantine studies
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities
Humanities are List of academic disciplines, academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with Divinity (aca ...
External links
Russian Studies at Petrozavodsk State University
Russian Studies / University of Helsinki
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