Eidelman, S. I., Kurdadze, L. M., Vainshtein, A. I. e⁺e⁻ Annihilation into Hadrons Below 2 GeV. Test of QCD Predictions (Preprint INF 78-84), 1978. In English

[Preprint] Eidelman, S. I., Kurdadze, L. M., Vainshtein, A. I. Annigilyatsiya e⁺e⁻ v adrony nizhe 2 GeV. Proverka predskazaniy KHD. [e⁺e⁻ Annihilation into Hadrons Below 2 GeV. Test of QCD Predictions]. Preprint / Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (IYaF SO AN SSSR).
Novosibirsk: Institute of Nuclear Physics SB USSR Academy of Sciences, 1978.
12 pp. Preprint INF 78-84. Print run 250 copies. Rotaprint. Corresponds to the publication: Phys. Lett. 82B (1979) 278.

This is a rare, original 1978 rotaprint preprint (No. INF 78-84) by the prominent Soviet theorists S.I. Eidelman, L.M. Kurdadze, and A.I. Vainshtein from the Novosibirsk Institute of Nuclear Physics. The work presents a crucial phenomenological analysis of experimental data on electron-positron annihilation into hadrons at energies below 2 GeV, aimed at testing the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for total cross-sections and form factors. Created during the formative years of QCD as the established theory of strong interactions, this preprint represents the vital, rapid exchange of cutting-edge theoretical research within the Soviet and global scientific community. Produced via the rotaprint method in an extremely limited edition of only 250 copies, this fragile 12-page document is a genuine artifact of late-Soviet "samizdat" science. Its subsequent publication in "Physics Letters B" in 1979 underscores its significance. As an early work by leading physicists, this preprint is a valuable primary source for historians of science, documenting a key moment in the verification and acceptance of QCD.