Reviews of topical problems

Yu.A. Izyumov “Solitons in quasi-one-dimensional magnetic materials and their study by neutron scattering” 31 689–712 (1988)

V.I. Ozhogin, V.L. Preobrazhenskii “Anharmonicity of mixed modes and giant acoustic nonlinearity of antiferromagnetics” 31 713–729 (1988)

R.Z. Levitin, A.S. Markosyan “Itinerant metamagnetism” 31 730–749 (1988)

Methodological notes

S.S. Kalmykova, V.I. Kurilko “Physical mechanisms for the hydrodynamic beam-plasma instability” 31 750–762 (1988)

From the current literature

V.V. Burdyuzha “Megamasers” 31 763–771 (1988)

Meetings and conferences

A.M. Bonch-Bruevich, M.N. Libenson, V.S. Makin “Surface polaritons and intense laser radiation” 31 772–773 (1988)

V.I. Anisimov, V.P. Antropov, V.A. Gubanov, M.I. Katsnel’son, A.I. Likhtenshtein “Band theory of magnetism in metals and alloys” 31 773–775 (1988)

N.N. Chugai “Supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud: first year of observations” 31 775–776 (1988)

G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan “Gravitational collapse, neutrino radiation, and supernova light curves” 31 776–777 (1988)

Personalia

A.P. Aleksandrov, V.I. Arnol’d, A.S. Borovik-Romanov, E.P. Velikhov, S.S. Gershtein, V.L. Ginzburg, V.I. Gol’danskii, Yu.M. Kagan, B.B. Kadomtsev, A.A. Ovchinnikov, L.B. Okun’, L.P. Pitaevskii, A.M. Prokhorov, R.Z. Sagdeev, A.D. Sakharov, R.A. Syunyaev, I.M. Khalatnikov, Yu.B. Khariton “Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich (Obituary)” 31 778–779 (1988)

A.A. Abagyan, B.M. Bolotovskii, V.L. Ginzburg, A.V. Gurevich, D.A. Kirzhnits, N.F. Ovchinnikov, L.P. Pitaevskii, M.M. Fiks, V.E. Cherkovets, V.D. Shafranov “Igor’ Pavlovich Stakhanov (Obituary)” 31 780–781 (1988)

Bibliography

D.E. Khmel’nitskii “A modern monograph on the physics of disordered systems” 31 782–783 (1988)

I.I. Mazin “A school on the electronic structure of solids” 31 783–784 (1988)

A.P. Silin “High magnetic fields in semiconductor physics” 31 784–784 (1988)