Bolshaya entsiklopedya

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Bolshaya entsiklopedya

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Yushakov designed his Bolshaya entsiklopedya (“Great Encyclopaedia”; 1900–09) on the “Meyer” model. After “Granat” the next important encyclopaedia was the 65-volume Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopedya (“Great Soviet Encyclopaedia”; 1926–47), which was eventually discredited; the second edition (1949–58) had a Marxist-Leninist approach but was less biassed on nonpolitical subjects. It…
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Yushakov designed his Bolshaya entsiklopedya (“Great Encyclopaedia”; 1900–09) on the “Meyer” model. After “Granat” the next important encyclopaedia was the 65-volume Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopedya (“Great Soviet Encyclopaedia”; 1926–47), which was eventually discredited; the second edition (1949–58) had a Marxist-Leninist approach but was less biassed on nonpolitical subjects. It…
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