The ''Small Soviet Encyclopedia'' (Russian: Малая советская энциклопедия) was a general
encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
published in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
. 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; ) 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 ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
''
Soviet encyclopedias
Soviet culture
Russian language
Russian-language encyclopedias
1928 non-fiction books
20th-century encyclopedias
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