
1926–1990 encyclopedia published in the Soviet Union
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia was a comprehensive reference work published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990 that aimed to document knowledge across all fields of science, culture, and society. It matters historically as a reflection of Soviet ideology and priorities during the communist era, as well as an important source of information for understanding how the Soviet state presented and shaped knowledge for its citizens.
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE; Russian: Больша́я сове́тская энциклопе́дия, БСЭ, romanized: Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya, 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 Encyclopedia in an updated and revised form. The GSE claimed to be "the first Marxist–Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia".
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