Meanings
- uncountablegovernmentThe study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the USSR.
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.
2024 January 7, “Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran … how far could war in the Middle East spread?”, in the Guardian - broadlyuncountableThe study of the internal politics of any powerful and secretive organization.
Those in the party are also quick to dismiss the sometimes necessary Kremlinology needed to discern its strategic shifts.
2019 July 1, Harry McGee, Fiach Kelly, “Bruised Sinn Féin looks inward as it takes a dive in the May elections”, in The Irish Times1 more example
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.
2010 September 2, Ben Smith, “Barbour called Murdoch (not Ailes)”, in Ben Smith Blog, Politico
Origin
- EnglishKremlin
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- EnglishKremlinology
Translations
Danish kremlologi
- kremlologistudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Finnish kremlologia
- kremlologiastudy of Soviet / Russian politics
French kremlinologie
- kremlinologiestudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Greek σοβιετολογία
- σοβιετολογία (sovietología)study of Soviet / Russian politics
Italian cremlinologia
- cremlinologiastudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Norwegian Bokmål kremlologi
- kremlologistudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Polish sowietologia, kremlinologia
- sowietologiastudy of Soviet / Russian politics
- kremlinologiastudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Russian кремлено́лог
- кремлено́лог (kremlenólog)study of Soviet / Russian politics
Spanish kremlinología, sovietologia
- kremlinologíastudy of Soviet / Russian politics
- sovietologiastudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Swedish kremlologi
- kremlologistudy of Soviet / Russian politics
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Kremlinology
Cite this entry
Kremlinology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kremlinology
“Kremlinology.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kremlinology. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kremlinology,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kremlinology.
Source: Kremlinology on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.