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| Original title | Большая советская энциклопедия |
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| Language | Russian |
| Subject | General |
| Publisher | Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya |
Publication date | 1926–1981 (printed version) |
| Media type | 30 volumes (hardbound) in 1981 |
| OCLC | 14476314 |
| Followed by | Great Russian Encyclopedia |
| Website | bse |
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE; Russian: Больша́я сове́тская энциклопе́дия, БСЭ, romanized: Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya, BSE) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias,[1] published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later Great Russian Encyclopedia in an updated and revised form. The GSE claimed to be "the first Marxist–Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia".[2]
- ^ 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
- ^ "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". TheFreeDictionary.com.