Советская Историческая Энциклопедия, в 16 томах.

One of the features of the Encyclopedia is the attention to the issues of historiography, the coverage of the most important problems of history in the literature of various directions. In order to increase the reference to many articles, detailed chronologies are given, which are constituent parts of the articles. Encyclopedia articles are accompanied by statistical tables, maps (historical, political, ethnographic), diagrams, illustrations. The bibliography includes publications of documents, historical sources (chronicles, chronicles, collections of legal acts, etc.), works of Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet historians, foreign literature.