B T Geilikman and V Z Kresin London: Israel Program for Scientific Translations 1974 ( distributed by J Wiley ) pp vi + 155 price £7.50 One area of the theory of superconductivity hardly touched upon in the original paper of Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS) was that of relaxation phenomena. Subsequent effort, much of it in the USSR (often simultaneously with similar work in the west), showed that the theory provided as sound an explanation of these phenomena as of those originally discussed.
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G. Rickayzen (1974) studied this question.