Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Title page of the 3rd ed. (in Russian), 1st vol.
LanguageRussian
SubjectGeneral
PublisherSovetskaya Entsiklopediya
Publication date
1926–1981 (printed version)
Media type30 volumes (hardbound) in 1981
OCLC14476314

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias,[1] submitted in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's information was partially added into the later Great Russian Encyclopedia in an updated and changed form. The GSE said to be "the first Marxist–Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia".[2]

  1. The 3rd edition contains more than 95,000 articles, and nearly 35,000 illustrations and maps. Compare with over 120,000 articles in the Russian Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890–1907) and with 100,000 in the 15th edition of Britannica
  2. "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". TheFreeDictionary.com.

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