Our issue No. 1 carries materials of the Jubilee Session of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, including a brief summary of the report delivered by Academican M. V. Keldysh, President of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and the full text of "The Historical Experience of the Great October Revolution", a report by Academician A. M. Rumyantsev, Vice-President of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The journal also publishes the following papers read at the jubilee Plenary Meeting of the Department of History of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution: "Fifty Years of Soviet Historical Science," by Academician E. M. Zhukov; "Soviet Archeology: Fifty Years of Progress," by Academician B. A. Rybakov;"The Basic Trends in Soviet Ethnographic Research," by Y. V. Bromley, Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences; "Fifty Years of Soviet Orientalogy," by B. G. Gafurov, Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences; "Soviet Slavonic Research: Certain Results of Development," by I. A. Khrenov; "The Working Class and Its Part in the October Revolution," by L. S. Gaponenko; "Bourgeois Historiography of the October Revolution: Certain Aspects," by A. O. Chubaryan; "Certain Aspects of the History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R.," by Y. A. Polyakov, Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences; "Historical Experience of the Cultural Revolution in the U.S.S.R.," by M. P. Kim, Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences.

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