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THIS BOOK IS AN ASSORTMENT OF ARTICLES DEALING WITH A VARIETY of subjects and, as is often the case with similar volumes, most of the articles have only a tangible relationship with each other. All the essays in the volume provide important information about Russia’s recent Soviet past. Nevertheless the most interesting aspect of the essays is not so much the actual data but rather the insight into the thinking of present-day Russian social scientists at a time when the USSR has increasingly become a part of history unrelated to the life and experience of a new generation of post-Soviet Russians. While looking at this volume’s essays from this perspective, one could find that, in many cases, the subject choice follows the common practice which could be well founded in the Soviet historiography. The tendency here was to find in the past what would be a prominent aspect of the Soviet regime in the future …