The Soviet Military Encyclopedia (Russian: Советская военная энциклопедия (СВЭ), romanized: Sovetskaya voyennaya entsiklopediya (SVE)) is an eight-volume encyclopedic dictionary of military subjects.

However, only the first two volumes were published by the People's Commissariat of Defense in 1932 and 1933, due to the execution of Eideman and many of the editorial board during the Great Purge.

[1] Due to revolutions in military affairs in the second half of the 20th century, the Soviet Ministry of Defense decided to publish an encyclopedia to summarize developments.

[1] The Russian Ministry of Defense published the successor Military Encyclopedia in Eight Volumes (Russian: Военная энциклопедия в 8 томах) beginning in 1994, including articles on subjects excluded by the Soviet version for ideological reasons, such as those relating to the White movement.

[1] According to then-Chief of the General Staff Mikhail Kolesnikov, writing in the journal Voyennaya Mysl (Military Thought), the encyclopedia's articles are mostly objective and reliable, but it devotes much of its space to promoting Soviet ideology, making the encyclopedia "excessively politicized".