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#Romance languages in the encyclopedia britannica macropedia free#

Somehow it escaped the attention of the editors that Soviet citizens are not always free to express their own minds on many subjects, especially if these subjects touch upon ideology or politics. The natural result of this concept of internationalism was to decrease the number ofĪmerlean contributors and to increase the contributions of scholars living abroad, including a sizable contingent from the Soviet Union.

Hutchins, Chairman, the Board of Editors, describing Britannica as 'one of the great intellectual contributions in the life of modern man.' Britannica conceives itself as an international encyclopedia, in the service of the whole of mankind. The most important encyclopedia in the English speaking world has always been a target of criticism for more or less valid reasons, and the new edition is certainly not going to escape the fate of its predecessors.īritannica's last edition has been a rather pretentious undertaking culminating in the expression by Robert M. The 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, after 15 years of planning and execution and after the expenditure of 2.5 million man-hours and $32 million, is finally on the shelves of libraries and in homes. 'Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic' (Macropaedia: 10:1264-1267).

Chicago, London, Toronto, Geneva, Sydney, Tokyo, Manila, Seoul, Johannesburg: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1974. THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA IN 30 VOLUMES. 'Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic' in the Copyright © 1975 LITUANUS Foundation, Inc.