It would be nice to believe you but the evidence is that sovietology is dying a long slow death.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/FINAL-ASEEES-assessment-report.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjPjp-e4fSDAxW8T2cHHZ74AiU4ChAWegQIDRAB&usg=AOvVaw24eabKFL1h9-Ctpt2t4RyP
And that decline is only recently - 2000s-2010s. Seven Phds per year(!). It is all only a tiny fraction of the academic interest in the 80s-90s.