This volume presents the current status of the Standard Model of the electroweak interactions and Higgs physics, aspects of QCD and supersymmetry, and provides particle physics background for astrophysical applications. In addition, there is in-depth coverage of inflation, high temperature field theory and phase transitions in the early universe, baryogenesis, dark matter and structure formation.

Contrary to popular opinion, contemporary psychology in the USSR is far from being monolithic. It is true that the development of Soviet psychology does have characteristic features which distinguish it from the development of Western (and particularly Anglo-American) psychology. Perhaps the most distinguishing features of Soviet psychology are represented by the pre- dominance of the historical-evolutionary approach and the emphasis on integrative physiological mechanisms underlying behavior. The development of Soviet psychological thinking can also be characterized as having been free of...