Soft multiparticle production in hadron-hadron collisions is reviewed with particular emphasis on its role as a standard for heavy-ion collisions at SPS and RHIC energies and as a bridge interpolating between the most simple e⁺e^- and the most complex AA collisions.

PACS numbers: 12.38.Qk, 13.66.Bc, 13.85.Hd, 13.87.Fh