Articles

Partnership for Poland? Partnership for Poland?

There was no miracle at the polls for the regime of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

New Days That Shake the World New Days That Shake the World

With Boris Yeltsin triumphantly defying the establishment in Moscow, Lech Walesa guiding the Polish opposition into Parliament and Imre Pozsgay, a member of the Hungarian Politb...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Achille’s Gamble Achille’s Gamble

When Achille Occhetto, the new General Secretary, closed the debate at the Eighteenth Congress of the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) in Rome on March 21, the delegates gave him...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

To Market To Market

Performing political acrobatics on the edge of the economic precipice, the Poles are also showing how very far it is possible to go in Eastern Europe in the era of Gorbachev.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

From Balzac to Salvador Dali From Balzac to Salvador Dali

"You are mistaken, dear angel, if you think that King Louis-Philippe rules--a mistake the King himself does not make.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution

Long live the Revolution--as long as it is dead and buried with no prospect of resurrection. That thought springs to mind as the French begin to celebrate the bicentennial of ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / 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

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

An Optimistic Tragedy? An Optimistic Tragedy?

For years, if they wished to be honest, observers of the Soviet Union had to work like archeologists, digging below the political surface to discover real social changes takin...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

All Power to the Soviets All Power to the Soviets

Four days that fascinated the Soviet people.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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