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Slavic and Eastern European Studies

General encyclopedias

In Russian

NOVYI ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR'. K.K. Arsen'ev, ed. St. Petersburg, 1911-1916. 29 Vols. A-Otto.

BOL'SHAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA. S.N.IUzhakov, P.N. Miliukov, eds. St. Petersburg, Meier, Knigoizdatel'skoe tovarishchestvo Prosveshchenie, 1900-1909. 22 Vols.

ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR' T-VA "BR. A. I I. GRANAT I KO." M.M. Kovalevskii, S.A. Muromtsev, K.A. Timiriazev, eds., 7th edn. Moscow, Granat, [1910]-1948. Vols. 1-55, 57-58, and PERVYI DOPOLNITEL'NYI TOM, A-Barentsovo more [1936].

BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA. O.IU. Shmidt, ed. Moscow, Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1926- 1948. 65 vols. Supplement: SOIUZ SOVETSKIKH SOTSIALISTICHESKIKH RESPUBLIK. 1947.

BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA. S.I. Vavilov, B.A. Vvedenskii, eds. Moscow, Bol'shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1950-1960. 50 vols.
Vol. 50: SOIUZ SOVETSKIKH SOTSIALISTICHESKIKH RESPUBLIK. 1957. Also published separately as SSSR. 1957.
ALFAVITNYI UKAZATEL' KO VTOROMU IZDANIIU. 2 vols. [1960].
EZHEGODNIK, 1957-.

BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA. A.M. Prokhorov, ed. Moscow, Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1969-1978. 30 vols. ALFAVITNYI IMMENNOI UKAZATEL'. 1981.
Supplement:
SSSR. ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SPRAVOCHNIK. 1982. This volume is updated periodically.

The three editions of BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA continue rather than replace each other. Each reflects the political climate of its time. Each set has a long section on Russia/USSR. The EZHEGODNIK, 1957-, ties up with the 2nd edn.

BOL'SHOI ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR'.A. M. Prokhorov, ed. 2nd rev. edn. Moscow, Bol'shaia Rossiiskaia Entsiklopediia, St. Petersburg, Norint, 1997.

BOL'SHOI ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR'. Moscow, Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1991. 2 vols.

SOVETSKII ENTSIKLOPEDICHESKII SLOVAR'. A.M. Prokhorov, ed. Moscow, Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1979; 2nd edn., 1982; 3rd edn., 1984; 4th edn., 1989.

NOVAIA ROSSIIA : INFORMATSIONNO-STATISTICHESKII ALMANAKH. GOSUDARSTVO. EKONOMIKA. BIZNES. GEOGRAFIIA. EKOLOGIIA. ZDOROV'E I SPORT. RELIGIIA. KUL'TURA. NAUKA. OBRAZOVANIE. Moscow, SP "Vsia Moskva", Mezhdunarodnaia Adademiia Informatsii, 1994.

NARODY ROSSII. ENTSIKLOPEDIIA . Ed. V.A. Tishkov. Moscow, Bolshaia Rossiiskaia entsiklopediia, 1994.

GORODA ROSSII. ENTSIKLOPEDIIA. Ed. G.M. Lappo. Moscow, Bol'shaia Rossiiskaia entsiklopediia, 1994.

MOSKVA. ENTSIKLOPEDIIA. Moscow, Bol'shaia Rossiiskaia Entsiklopediia, 1997.

In English

THE MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. D.R. Kelley, ed. Vol. 1, 1991- (announced)

THE MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY (MERSH). J.L. Wieczynski, ed. 1976-93. 55 vols. Volume 55 with Supplement.

THE MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIAN, SOVIET AND EURASIAN HISTORY. 1994- , v.56.

THE MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LITERATURE (MERSL). H.B. Weber, ed., vol. 1, 1977-.

THE MILITARY-NAVAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. D.L. Jones, ed., vol. 1, 1978-.

THE MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIONS IN RUSSIA AND SOVIET UNION. P.D. Steeves, ed., vol. 1,1988-.

GREAT SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA. A TRANSLATION OF THE THIRD EDITION. New York, Macmillan, 1973-. (i.e., translation of the BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA, 3rd edn.)

THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIA AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. A. Brown et al. eds. 2nd ed. (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1994). 1st ed in 1982.

INFORMATION USSR. AN AUTHORITATIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA ABOUT THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS. R. Maxwell, ed. Oxford, Pergamon, 1962, translation of BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA ENTSIKLOPEDIIA vol. 50 of the 2nd edn. with some addenda by the editor.

THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE. A HANDBOOK. 2nd edn. London, Muller, Blond & White, 1986.

Keefe, E.K., et al. AREA HANDBOOK FOR THE SOVIET UNION. Washington, D.C., GPO, 1971.

Zemtsov, I. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOVIET LIFE. New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers, [1991].

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