Following the publication of the first volume of the
nationalist. Of the 20 planned volumes only three were produced. In the same year Skrypnyk committed suicide, and was succeeded by Volodymyr Zatonsky. The printed copies were destroyed, and plans for the November 1934 edition of USE dissolved.[citation needed
]
First edition
In early 1948, interest in the USE returned as a response the publication of the
Stalin. From 1959 to 1965 the first edition of the USE was published spanning 17 volumes with more than 45,000 articles. The foreword stated that the URE "should show fraternal unity of the people with the Russian and all other peoples of the Soviet Motherland" and that it is against "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism
", a reference to the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. Russian and English translations of the first edition were published in 1969.
Second edition
In 1974 the second edition of the USE began publishing, finishing in 1985. A full Russian translation began in 1978. The publication consisted of 12 volumes with over 50,000 articles (most of the reduced number of volumes can be explained by the increase in the number of columns per page from 2 to 3) The editor of both publications was writer
CPSU. Historical figures in Ukrainian history such as Ivan Mazepa
were not viewed positively, as to avoid brewing any nationalist sentiments. There are no articles on the ethnic groups of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary
Cover of the first edition of Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary
Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary was a shortened variant of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, which was also issued by the
All-Ukrainian State Specialized Publisher "Ukrainian Encyclopedia"
. There were two editions of the dictionary and both contained three volumes. The first edition was published in 1966-68, and the second – 1986-87.
