Germany Muscles In Germany Muscles In
At the turn of the year, the Western media, like latter-day Columbuses, suddenly discovered that Europe was speaking with an increasingly strong German accent. Their surprise ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Boris the Brief? Boris the Brief?
Forced out of office and deliberately humiliated, Mikhail Gorbachev nevertheless left the historical stage with the dignity of an actor who was aware of the crucial part he had p...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
West and East West and East
In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ec...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Poland’s New Men of Property Poland’s New Men of Property
On Sunday, October 27--the future as I write this--the Poles will elect their two houses of Parliament, for the first time in an entirely free vote.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Dream and the Nightmare The Dream and the Nightmare
"How could anyone possibly say that the October Revolution was in vain?" the poet Tvardovsky angrily told Solzhenitsyn in what now seems another age.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Fast Forward Fast Forward
The sorcerer's apprentices could not even stage a coup.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Fiddling While Rome Smolders Fiddling While Rome Smolders
Is Italy on the eve of a major political crisis? Is a change of regime, or perhaps even the birth of a new republic, imminent?
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Socialism’s Setting Sun Socialism’s Setting Sun
Amid the noise of the unending Urbatechnic affaire, a scandal over the Socialist Party's fraudulent financing of its electoral funds, the tenth anniversary of François Mitte...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Papal Polonaise Papal Polonaise
The post-Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed in part because of the glaring contrast between theory and practice, promise and fulfillment.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
The Treason of the New Intellectuals The Treason of the New Intellectuals
The jingoist euphoria that followed a successful one-sided war may not last as long as the Republicans now assume.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer