Articles

The Perils of Perestroika The Perils of Perestroika

Is Mikhail Gorbachev, for all his vast presidential powers and commanding leadership of the Communist Party, merely to be a transitional ruler of the Soviet Union? If so, a tra...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Silent Reproach Silent Reproach

Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Too Good to Be True Too Good to Be True

This is the rather flattering self-portrait of a populist leader who has already traveled quite far: Boris Yeltsin, once a protégé of Mikhail Gorbachev, is now his ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

P.C.I.–What’s in a New Name? P.C.I.–What’s in a New Name?

I thought I was going to the opulent city of Bologna, with its ancient red-brick palaces, for the funeral of the Italian Communist Party.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Communism’s Great Debate Communism’s Great Debate

"Is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union still the ruling party, the political vanguard of the people? . . . Should there be a multiparty system? Does the C.P.S.U.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution

"Havel to the castle": In the doubly festive mood just before Christmas the heart of Prague was full of posters bearing that slogan and a picture of Vaclav Havel, the famous pl...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

After the Wall, a New Socialism? After the Wall, a New Socialism?

"The Party always arrives five minutes after the hour," one critical East Berlin Communist complained bitterly, just as events there were gathering momentum.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Europe in the Post-Yalta Era Europe in the Post-Yalta Era

History knows no neat radical breaks.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Revolutionary Nostalgia Revolutionary Nostalgia

Slogans sometimes succeed in conveying the mood of a period.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Solidarity–The Road to Power Solidarity–The Road to Power

For the next weeks and months the eyes of the world will be focused on Poland, where events are now unfolding at an unexpectedly dramatic pace.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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