 The first volume of the second edition, under the general editorship of then-Chief of the General Staff Mikhail Moiseyev, was published by Voenizdat in 1990.The second edition was not completed due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.The Russian Ministry of Defense published the successor "Military Encyclopedia in Eight Volumes" () beginning in 1994, including articles on subjects excluded by the Soviet version for ideological reasons, such as those relating to the White movement.