Sergei S. Demidov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

• IntroductionThe case of academician Luzin in the collective memory of the scientific communityMinutes of the meetings of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the case of academician LuzinMinutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin: 7 July Minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission on the matter of academician Luzin9 July Minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission on the matter of academician Luzin11 July Minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin13 July Minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin15 July Commentaries on the minutes of the meetings of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the case of academician LuzinCommentaries on the minutes of the meetings of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the case of academician Luzin Commentary on the minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin7 July 1936 Commentary on the minutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin9 July 1936 Commentary on the minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin11 July 1936 Commentary on the minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin13 July 1936 Commentary on the minutes of the meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the matter of academician Luzin15 July 1936 Literature AppendicesAppendices introductionA pleasant disillusionmentReply to academician N. LuzinEnemies wearing a Soviet maskLetter from L. Z. Mekhlis, editor of $\textit{Pravda}$, to the Central Committee, 3 July 1936Resolution concerning the articles ``Response to academician Luzin'' and ``Enemies wearing a Soviet mask'' in $\textit{Pravda}$Draft of the proposal of the special session of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 4 July 1936Letter from P. L. Kapitsa to Molotov, 6 July 1936Excerpt from the minutes of the Presidum meeting of 7 July 1936Letters from V. I. Vernadski iand N. V. Nasonov to the Academy of Sciences Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences and to academicians A. E. Fersman and N. P. Gorbunov in support of academician LuzinLetter from academician N. N. Luzin to the Central Committee of the Communist Party 7 July 1936Traditions of servilityResolution of the General Assembly of Scientists of the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics and Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Astronomy at Moscow UniversityLetter from Luzin to an undetermined addressee, 11 July 1936Enemies wearing a Soviet maskThe Leningrad scholars respondLetter from L. Z. Mekhlis, Editor of Pravda, to Stalin and Molotov, 14 July 1936The enemy exposed Luzin's statement to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences, 14 July 1936Academician Gubkin on so-called academician LuzinThe Belarus scholars on the exposed enemy LuzinThe scholarly community condemns enemies wearing a Soviet maskNote accompanying the draft of the findings of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences regarding academician N. N. Luzin, 25 July 1936Conclusion of the Commission On academician N. N. LuzinFindings of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 5 August 1936To rid academia of LuzinismGlossary of Soviet terms and peopleSubject indexName index

It is wonderful to have this book available in English translation. The Case of Academician Luzin is a highly significant event in the history of Soviet mathematics; with its presentation of original sources, together with ample commentary, this book will now convey the full import of this event to a new readership." - Christopher Hollings, Oxford University, author of Mathematics across the Iron Curtain"The translation into English of The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin is an important contribution toward the understanding of the fate of a great mathematician in Stalin's time. We learn here the details of how he was judged in a political trial. I would like to immodestly suggest that reading this source together with Jean-Michel Kantor's and my recent book Naming Infinity will clarify an episode in both the history of mathematics and of the Soviet Union that has long mystified observers." - Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, MIT and Harvard"Included within its 363 pages is an outline of the innovatory nature of Russian mathematics in the first 30 years of the 20th century. The core of the book consists of the minutes of the meetings of the five-day hearing during which Luzin was virtually fighting for his life. Indeed, the wealth of documentary evidence provided by the authors creates the impression that they have left no stone unturned in their quest to reveal the awful machinations that beset Nikolai Luzin in 1936. Read all about it in this gripping account of a wrongly persecuted mathematician." - P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews