Looking for a ‘Historic Compromise’ Looking for a ‘Historic Compromise’
Four drunken Polish youths, four distant, misty figures, acrobatically avoid a fall, then vanish mysteriously into the fog.
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
Braving Bush’s New World Order Braving Bush’s New World Order
The Soviet Union can no longer act as a brake on US. expansion, and Western Europe cannot do so yet. That is the bitter, bloody and understated lesson of the current crisis.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Turncoats and Scapegoats Turncoats and Scapegoats
Boris Yeltsin, the former chief apparatchik in Sverdlovsk, and Gennadi Burbulis, the former professor of Marxism-Leninism in the same town, are the men behind the prosecution in ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Triumph of Euroamericanism The Triumph of Euroamericanism
Western Europe is looking into an uncertain future. The German election, which was supposed to clear the horizon, has really obstructed the view.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Death of a Collaborator Death of a Collaborator
Early on the morning of June 8, a messenger arrived at an apartment in one of the poshest districts of Paris bearing documents to be signed by a former high-level government offi...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
AutoWorkers and ‘Sniffing Planes’ AutoWorkers and ‘Sniffing Planes’
As the year opened in Paris, two stories dominated the news, one of them sad, the other funny. The first occurred at the Talbot auto plant in Poissy, just outside the capital.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Market Is the New Religion The Market Is the New Religion
Back in Warsaw after my trip to Gdansk, I talk about the economy with the outgoing government's spokesman on reform. He is more specific on what is to be done than on how it sho...
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
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