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