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 / Editorial / 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 / Editorial / 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