The Second International Conference on Plasma Theory, organized by the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences and the P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences with the support of the Scientific Council for Plasma Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, took place in Kiev from 28 October to 1 November 1974. The Organizing Committee for the Conference was presided over by Academician N.N. Bogolyubov.