Articles

Our Man in Moscow Our Man in Moscow

You don't cross the Rubicon, argued Andre Malraux, in order to sit down on the other side and fish in its waters. Yet this is exactly what Boris Yeltsin did.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Bonjour Tristesse Bonjour Tristesse

History, whatever Hegel or Marx may have said about tragedy and farce, can also repeat itself as a tragicomedy.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Something Rotten in the Kingdom Something Rotten in the Kingdom

When in London, if you have some time to spare, go east to the Isle of Dogs to visit what was to have been Europe's biggest office-plus-housing project.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Buba Knows Best Buba Knows Best

By the skin of their teeth... Watching on French television the gloomy faces of the alleged winners one could not help feeling there was an element of defeat in their victory.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Capitalism From Above Capitalism From Above

Boris Yeltsin celebrated the first anniversary of his reign in the mood of a satisfied yet rather puzzled survivor ("we jumped into the river not knowing how to swim...but we did...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Italy’s Summer of Discontent Italy’s Summer of Discontent

Maastricht--shorthand now for the speeding up of the European Community's financial integration--is both an eye-opener and a mystification.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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 Stink of Money The Stink of Money

Los Angeles is not the only place perturbing the sermons of the preachers of history's end and capitalism's eternal youth.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Bad Memories Bad Memories

France is still feeling the shock of a legal decision destined to induce collective amnesia.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Ghosts of Nationalism The Ghosts of Nationalism

The specter haunting Europe today, as it approaches the twenty-first century, is the ghost of nineteenth-century nationalism.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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