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\textit{M. Gromov} generalized Lévys isoperimetric inequality to all compact Riemannian \(n\)-manifolds \((M^n,g)\) with \(\text{Ric}\geq n-1\). Later on, he and \textit{V. D. Milman} [Am. J. Math. 105, 843-854 (1983; Zbl 0522.53039)] proved that Riemannian \(n\)-manifolds with \(\text{Ric}\geq n-1\) concentrate to a point, when the dimension grows. A natural question arises: Under what conditions must the dimension of \(n\)-dimensional metric measure manifolds in a concentrating sequence go to infinity? The present authors give an answer to this problem for a Finsler space \(F\) with \(\text{Ric}\geq(n-1)\lambda\) and \(|H|\leq (n-1)\delta\), where \(H\) is a purely Finslerian notion called the mean tangent curvature. When \(F\) is Riemannian, then \(H\) vanishes. A local formula of \(H\) is given in the authors' preprint [``Lecture Notes on Finsler Geometry'' (Oct., 1998)], together with relations with the Berwald \(hv\)-curvature tensor and the Douglas tensor. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0931.00037].