The Twentieth-Century Russia Reader, Edited by Alastair Kocho-Williams, Routledge, 2011, 350 pp., ISBN 9780415583091

An excellent collection of essays that offers much for students. The essays have been published before but they are frequently in sources that students find difficult to access. Moreover, Kocho-Williams is to be congratulated for focusing on recent work. In doing so, he benefits from the degree of opening of the archives that has occurred recently. The coverage is up to date in every sense, with four essays on the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent developments. Hopefully, another edition will soon cover more recent developments and archival disclosures. In the meanwhile, this volume offers much.