The Shaping of Czardom Under Ivan Groznyj. By Bjarne Nprretranders. Reprint of the 1964 Copenhagen edition, Variorum Reprint S4. London: Variorum Reprints, 1971. 188 pp. £6.

the editor of the volume under review.Although offered as the first installment of that important project, Perfecky's volume was in fact prepared originally under different auspices as a doctoral dissertation.Therefore, the reader would be wise to heed the editor's warning that the Perfecky volume "shows the present state of research" (p.7) and will need revision.As indicated by my critical comments, there is some justification for going one step further and suggesting that its publication was a bit premature.