Encyclopedia Lituanica

It was published between 1970 and 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts by Lithuanian Americans who fled Soviet occupation at the end of World War II.

To this day, it remains the only such comprehensive work on Lithuania in the English language.

The undertaking was made extremely complicated by the fact that most sources and resources were behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union.

Some of the entries in Encyclopedia Lituanica come from this earlier work, which had about two-fifths of its content devoted to Lithuania-related topics.

[3] It was edited by Simas Sužiedėlis, and at the end of the last volume it lists 197 contributors; only a handful of them are non-Lithuanians.