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This survey paper is one which everyone who is interested in radical theory should definitely read. Various radicals, namely the Baer, Köthe, Jacobson, Brown-McCoy, torsion, and von Neumann regular radicals are considered, and structure theorems concerning these radicals are given. Distinguishing the different radicals leads to interesting ring constructions which contributes substantially to the better understanding of the structure of rings. Radicals of related rings such as matrix rings, polynomial rings, and formal power series rings are studied and very recent results are mentioned. In the early fifties, S. A. Amitsur and A. G. Kurosh independently observed that all radical classes have three common properties. This introduced a new, more abstract notion of radicals. The author illustrates by some recent results a typical way of developing radical theory. The introduction of new radicals leads to new types of structure theorems and to the construction of a ring with unusual properties. This paper, written by one of the most productive researchers in the field, gives the reader a very clear knowledge about radical theory and a good foundation for doing further work.