Soviet Historical Encyclopedia

The Soviet Historical Encyclopedia is the Soviet encyclopedia of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1961–1976) on the history of peoples of the whole world until the 70s of the 20th century.

Content
Includes articles-terms on the history of the Soviet Union and foreign countries, especially on recent history. Many articles are given detailed chronologies, which are integral parts of articles devoted to the Soviet Union, Union republics and foreign countries.

Articles are accompanied by statistical tables, maps (historical, political, ethnographic), diagrams, illustrations.

Editors

 * Editor-in-Chief – Evgeny Zhukov.

In different years, the members of the main editorial board were: