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My small-town public library growing up had a great resource that I did not appreciate at the time: an English translation of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia[0].
by macintux 11mo ago
My small-town public library growing up had a great resource that I did not appreciate at the time: an English translation of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia[0].
I really wish I had spent time with it. If nothing else it would have given me some questions to ask my history teachers.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia
- nocoiner 11mo agoWow! I would have been absolutely fascinated by this when I was a kid. I remember once wandering around my college library and finding the book “The Soviet Economy Through the Year 2000.” This occurred during the current millennium.
- man8alexd 11mo agoMy grandpa had the full 50-volume edition of the encyclopedia published in the 1950s. I spent a lot of time digging through it in my pre-teen years.
- greenavocado 11mo agoAnna has it in her archive
- ForOldHack 11mo agoWhere is the Josun Encyclopedia? I would like to read it. Thanks
- greenavocado 11mo agoCan't find an ISBN for it but Anna tells me she has something similar 1-56591-070-2