"putin(ov)shchina" exists.

[E Wayles Browne]

Alina Israeli wrote:

> -ism and -ist came into Russian in the early 20th century, I believe.
>
Surely both suffixes have been there longer. Even if you mean the addition of
-ism and -ist to names of persons, there was dal'tonizm and darvinist in
the mid-19th century.
-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
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