In February 2010 Dr Mark Edele, UWA, made an exchange visit to the Department of History, University of Reading.  He is the author of Soviet veterans of the Second World War (OUP, 2008).  He is about to finish a new more general study for OUP on the Stalinist dictatorship.  Mark was booked by the Historical Association to give one of their talks at Reading and led a staff postgraduate seminar and did some teaching in Professor Richard Bosworth’s Historicizing Auschwitz course, as well as giving academic papers in London and Oxford