This volume is a translation from the Russian of D.A. Suprunenko's book
which was published in the Soviet Union in 1972. The translation was
edited by K.A. Hirsch. The book gives an account of the classical
results on the structure of normal subgroups of the general linear group
over a division ring, of Burnside's and Schur's theorems on periodic
linear groups, and of the theorem on the normal structure of SL(n, Z)
for n >2. The theory of solvable, nilpotent, and locally nilpotent
linear groups is also discussed.