); The alphabetical index contains about 35,000 names, titles and terms.
Russian scholar John Glad wrote, "For the specialist in Russian literature, this is undoubtedly the most basic an important reference tool to appear from the Soviet Union.
[1] Scholars Barry Lewis and Michael Ulman wrote, "despite its shortcomings, must be considered an achievement comparable to the best Western productions of its type.
In general, it is a “carefully prepared and highly professional publication.” [3] The ninth volume was famous for the fact that it included articles about writers originally excluded from the glossary by ideological reasons, first of all about representatives of unrealistic trends in Soviet literature (Konstantin Vaginov, Alexander Vvedensky) and the first emigration (Georgy Adamovich, Don-Aminado, Nikolai Evreinov).
The subject heading does not contain the names of the emigrants of the 1970s, even those to whom the separate articles in the previous volumes of the encyclopaedia are devoted (Alexander Galich, Vladimir Maksimov, Viktor Nekrasov).