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I just found this collection of Soviet books on archive.org (mostly English translations)

Posted by ymous 2 months ago Follow
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https://archive.org/details/@mirtitles

also see: https://mirtitles.org/

Here is another link (not sure if it's the same thing as the first one cuz the content looks a little different):

https://archive.org/details/mir-titles

Apparently this is an initiative by some folks who want to preserve old Soviet-era books. There's a lot of textbooks on there (mathematics, physics, etc) for those who are interested. The ones that I've checked have full versions free to download.

I'm not sure about the copyright status of this project though. Since it's free to download, perhaps it's public domain? Maybe because it's from the Soviet union, no one really cares anymore?

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[–] freeBread 2 points *

According to this Wikipedia article, Mir Publishers closed down in 2009 so that's probably why no one cares anymore.

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[–] ymous 2 points

Mir Publishers was a major publishing house in the Soviet Union which continues to exist in modern Russian Federation.

It still exists. I think you misread the following part.

In 2008, the company faced a bankruptcy case. The case was closed by the Moscow Arbitral Court on June 2, 2009 because the publishing house had paid completely the debt to the creditors.

On a side note, even the wikipedia article has links to these ebooks.

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