The Soviet Historical Encyclopedia is the Soviet encyclopedia of the

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

(1961–1976) on the history of peoples of the whole world until the 70s of the 20th century.

Content

Includes articles-terms on the history of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

and foreign countries, especially on recent history. Many articles are given detailed chronologies, which are integral parts of articles devoted to the

, Union republics and foreign countries. Articles are accompanied by statistical tables, maps (historical, political, ethnographic), diagrams, illustrations.

Editors

*Editor-in-Chief – Evgeny Zhukov. In different years, the members of the main editorial board were:

Volumes

{, class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;" ! Volume ! Title , , Year of Publishing , , Number of Pages , - , 1 , , Aaltonen – Ayan , , 1961 , , 530 , - , 2 , , Baal – Washington , , 1962 , , 517 , - , 3 , , Washington – Vyachko , , 1963 , , 516 , - , 4 , , Hague – Dvin , , 1963 , , 542 , - , 5 , , Dvinsk – Indonesia , , 1964 , , 492 , - , 6 , , Indra – Caracas , , 1965 , , 521 , - , 7 , , Karakeev – Koshaker , , 1965 , , 520 , - , 8 , , Koshala – Malta , , 1965 , , 509 , - , 9 , , Malta – Nakhimov , , 1966 , , 508 , - , 10 , , Nachimson – Pergamum , , 1967 , , 534 , - , 11 , , Pergamum – Renuven , , 1968 , , 521 , - , 12 , , Reparations – Slavs , , 1969 , , 496 , - , 13 , , Slavic Studies – Xia Chen , , 1971 , , 530 , - , 14 , , Taanah – Feleo , , 1973 , , 524 , - , 15 , , Fellahi – Zhalaynor , , 1974 , , 510 , - , 16 , , Zhang Wen-Tien – Yashtukh , , 1976 , , 509

Sources

*Soviet Historical Encyclopedia // Soviet Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine: in 4 Volumes / Editor-in-Chief Andrey Skaba – Kiev: The Main Edition of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1972 – Volume 4 – Page 130

External links

Soviet Historical Encyclopedia: In 16 Volumes
�– Moscow: State Scientific Publishing House "Soviet Encyclopedia", 1961–1976 // Site "

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