Bolshaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya
- Bolshaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya
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▪ Soviet encyclopaedia
major encyclopaedia of the former Soviet Union.
The first edition, which appeared in 65 volumes from 1926 to 1947, had lost its official approval by the time it was completed. A second edition, begun in 1949, was published in 50 volumes from 1950 to 1958. Although written from a Marxist-Leninist point of view, it is considered less biased than the first edition. One complete volume of the second edition was devoted to the Soviet Union. A supplemental volume (
no. 51) contains political biographies (chiefly of persons “rehabilitated” after having been purged during the Stalin era), tables of weights and measures, currencies, and so on.
A third edition of 30 volumes, published according to a decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1967), printed in smaller type and containing generally shorter, more tightly edited articles, appeared from 1970 to 1978. A name index appeared in 1981. The Macmillan Company of New York City and London issued an English translation of the third edition in 1973–83. After 1974, the Soviets entered into translation and publishing agreements with Italian, Greek, Spanish, Latin-American, and Bangladesh publishers.
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