indeed partly due political concerns western european united states slavic world nurtured cold war slavic studies flourished years world war ii though university enrollments slavic languages declined since subfields following traditional division slavs three subgroups eastern southern western slavic studies also divided three distinctive sublields east slavic studies encompassing study east slavic peoples linguistic literary cultural historical heritages belarusian studies belarusistics russian studies russistics
Social science Sociology Area studies Slavic studies