Articles

Western Front Western Front

Fundamentalism is spreading westward; now it has invaded the Maghreb. The results of Algeria's June 12 local elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (F.J.S.) won more ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

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

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