Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Fundamental Concept Ⅰ: Free Groups 2.1 Free Groups in a Class 2.2 Words 2.3 (Absolutely) Free Groups Chapter 3 Words in the Free Group F2 3.1 Commutator Remainders 3.2 Efficient Words 3.3 Homomorphie Images of Words 3.4 Homomorphie Invariant 3.5 Homomorphie Properties 3.6 Efficiency of Words Chapter 4 General Words 4.1 Notions and Notations 4.2 Standard Forms of Words 4.3 Uniqueness of Standard Forms 4.4 Criterion of Efficiency Chapter 5 Properties of the Standard Exponents of Words 5.1 Words of the Form ω(x1m1,…,xnmn) 5.2 Words of the Form ω1l1…ωlss 5.3 Words to and to ωσ Chapter 6 Fundamental Concept ll:Nilpotent Groups 6.1 Nilpotenee of Groups 6.2 Preliminary Properties of Nilpotent Groups 6.3 The Most Important Subclasses of Nilpotent Groups 6.3.1 Finite Nilpotent Groups 6.3.2 Finitely Generated Nilpotent Groups 6.3.3 Torsion-free Nilpotent Group 6.4 Generalizations of Nilpotence 6.4.1 Local Nilpotence 6.4.2 The Normalizer C0ndition Chapter 7 Collapsing Groups 7.1 Engel Identities 7.2 Collapsing Conditions 7.3 Collapsing Laws for Almost Nilpotence 7.4 Residually Finite Groups Chapter 8 Groups Satisfying Positive Words 8.1 Some Properties 8.2 Nilpotenee 8.3 SB-groups Chapter 9 Milnor Groups and Groups Satisfying Efficient Words 9.1 Groups Satisfying Efficient Words 9.1.1 Efficient Conditions 9.1.2 Efficiency and Nilpotenee 9.2 Milnor Groups 9.3 Finite f-Milnor Groups 9.3.1 Finite Soluble f-Milnor Groups 9.3.2 Finite Nilpotent Groups in My 9.3.3 Finite f-Milnor Groups Chapter 10 Polycyclic Groups 10.1 Properties of Polyeyelie Groups 10.2 Polycyelic Conditions for Nilpotence 10.3 Polycyelic Groups in Varieties 10.4 Nilpotent Polycyclic Groups Chapter 11 Varieties of Groups 11.1 Words and Varieties 11.2 Nilpotent Conditions 11.3 Varieties with Finite Basis 11.4 Variety A2 Chapter 12 Metabelian Suhvarieties of Groups 12.1 Variety ApA 12.2 Variety ApA 12.2.1 Some Lemmas 12.2.2 Milnor Groups and Nilpotence 12.3 Variety AA Chapter 13 Finitely Generated f-Milnor Groups 13.1 Weak Milnor Classes 13.2 Structure off-Milnor Groups 13.3 Strong Milnor Classes Chapter 14 Criteria for Almost Nilpotence 14.1 Laws for CpC 14.2 Varieties Being Almost Nilpotent 14.3 Some Preliminary Results of Groups 14.3.1 Commutator Groups 14.3.2 Isolators of Subgroups 14.4 Torsion-by-Nilpotent Groups 14.5 Example Bibliography