Articles

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

Dawn in Poland Dawn in Poland

Dual power, Lenin wrote, cannot last long. But just how long?

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism

The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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

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