This ten-volume edition of the World History of the Jewish People in the Russian original (Riga, 1936-1939) is final in the sense of revising and establishing the text. As indicated further, in the "Introduction," the various parts of this book have passed for many years through several editions in the original and in translations into other languages, so that the present edition is for different volumes the third or fourth. It would be desirable that from now on translators and critics use this very final text of my work, which I have been trying to improve to the best of my ability for almost forty years, adapting it to scientific dynamics in this field.