The ''Small Soviet Encyclopedia'' (Russian: Малая советская энциклопедия) was a general
encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into article (publishing), articles or entries that are arranged Alp ...
published in the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
. The encyclopedia was published in three editions:
* 1st edition, 10 volumes (between the period 1928–1931) -- the volumes were sold as they were published, hence the different publication dates for the 10 volumes.
* 2nd edition, 11 volumes
* 3rd edition, 10 volumes
See also
* ''
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...
''
References
Soviet encyclopedias
Culture of the Soviet Union
Russian language
Russian-language encyclopedias
1928 non-fiction books
20th-century encyclopedias
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