:Post-Soviet studies
{{Short description|Field of study focusing on post-Soviet societies}}
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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.{{cite journal |last1=Bonnell |first1=Victoria E. |last2=Breslauer |first2=George W. |title=Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies |date=1 December 1998 |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rq5g9rc |journal=Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies |access-date=1 November 2022 |language=en}} The field encompasses a broad range of studies in the area of the former Soviet Union, including within Slavic studies{{cite journal |last1=Sakwa |first1=Richard |title=Postcommunist studies: once again through the looking glass (darkly)? |journal=Review of International Studies |date=October 1999 |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=709–719 |doi=10.1017/S0260210599007093|s2cid=144164154 }} and Central Eurasian studies,{{cite journal |last1=Tomohiko |first1=Uyama |title=The Contribution of Central Eurasian Studies to Russian and (Post-)Soviet Studies and Beyond |journal=Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History |date=2015 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=331–344 |doi=10.1353/kri.2015.0020 |s2cid=159368915 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/582477 |access-date=1 November 2022 |issn=1538-5000}} and the study of specific post-Soviet states, including: Armenianology,{{cite journal |last1=Kotchikian |first1=Asbed |date=1 March 2006 |title=From Post-Soviet Studies to Armenianology |url=https://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/14_2_98811503575215N0.pdf |journal=Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=303–311 |doi=10.3200/demo.14.2.303-311}} Baltic studies, Belarusian studies, Central Asian studies, Georgian studies, Russian studies,{{cite journal |last1=Laitin |first1=David D. |title=Post-Soviet Politics |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |date=June 2000 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=117–148 |doi=10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.117|doi-access=free }} Ukrainian studies, and others.
Broader themes in post-Soviet studies include the role of postcolonial analysis,{{cite journal |last1=Spivak |first1=Gayatri Chakravorty |title=Are You Postcolonial? To the Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Literatures |journal=Publications of the Modern Language Association of America |date=May 2006 |volume=121 |issue=3 |pages=828–829 |doi=10.1632/S0030812900165903|s2cid=233315161 }} and the relevance of analysis in context of the former Soviet Union as studies of the region progress into the post-Soviet era.{{cite journal |last1=Buckler |first1=Julie A. |title=What Comes after 'Post-Soviet' in Russian Studies? |journal=Publications of the Modern Language Association of America |date=January 2009 |volume=124 |issue=1 |pages=251–263 |doi=10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.251|s2cid=2240953 |url=http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4341694 }}