Study on Russian ethnology after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Any science has to undergo a complex and changing development process. As the composition of the social science of ethnology, due to the change of social demand in different historical period, the research object, research scope and research methods are also changing. This changing process also makes the history of the subject is constantly enriched. This paper put the Soviet Russian ethnology as research object, and it analyzed the hot issues of Russian ethnology by combing the Russian ethnology history, and it displayed the general picture of the development of Ethnology in Russia. Firstly, this paper reviewed the development history of Russian Ethnology; this paper introduced the Russian ethnology "crisis" and subject status, and it analyzed the Shirokogoroff's academic thoughts and the national theory and social influence of L.N. Gumilyov. Finally, this paper analyzed the Russian Ethnology in the new millennium. Through the study, we find that subject is still faced with many problems, one of the most important is the problem of discipline team construction and personnel training, and financial difficulty seems to be a common problem in all disciplines. Russia has opened up more channels of Ethnology funds at home and abroad, and completed many major scientific research projects, and the shortage of funds is still largely hindered the development of science, especially the development of local ethnology.