Regions and Countries

‘Solidarity Will Never Die’ ‘Solidarity Will Never Die’

If Polish law supposes that a huge social movement can be voted out of existence, then, as Mr.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

What Price Gloire What Price Gloire

The only free Kanaks are dead ones, the outgoing French government might have argued.

Jan 2, 1998 / 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

Solidarity Lost Solidarity Lost

On December 9, after a second ballot, Lech Walesa, the former electrician from the Lenin Shipyards, will be the President of the Polish Republic.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

West and East West and East

In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ec...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

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

Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power

"What has happened to your 'socialist' France? Is it going the way of all social-democratic flesh?"

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

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

Yeltsin’s Round Yeltsin’s Round

Nothing is over, not even the counting; given the prevailing mood of mutual suspicion there will be plenty of disputes over the final result.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

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