This collection of essays, the latest in a long list of collected works put together byVariorum's Studies in East–Central Europe, 1500–1900, is supposed to givethe reader a broad range of Nikolai Todorov's lifetime work. Todorov's contributionto the field is not in doubt, although this collection hardly does justice to that contribution. Thefourteen separate articles often overlap in theme, and on one occasion they almost reproduce thesame article, as they span a period that reaches back to Todorov's early career in Bulgaria(1964–92). The essays somewhat misplace Todorov's importance to the field, asmost of the language appropriated has become outdated with the collapse of the Bulgarianinstitutions that funded Todorov's research until 1989. I would like to think Todorov cansurvive the fall of historical materialism.