Boris Porshnev

"[1] Porshnev led several Soviet expeditions to the Pamir Mountains and north-western Himalayas to search for the Mongolian "Almas" (wild man).

[2] He was driven by a Marxist ideology to find the "wild man" to confirm materialism and evolutionary human origins.

Although it was later dissolved, in 1963 he produced a book summarising the evidence the commission had obtained and his views on Neanderthal survival which was circulated in a limited number of copies.

A copy of the book was obtained by the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) and translated; it was published in 2021 with maps, illustrations, notes and an index.

[5] The original edition of LES SOULEVEMENTS POPULAIRES ... appeared in Russian as NARODNIE VOSSTANYA VO FRANTSII PERED FRONDOI,1623-1648 (Moscow, 1948).