Western Front Western Front
Fundamentalism is spreading westward; now it has invaded the Maghreb. The results of Algeria's June 12 local elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (F.J.S.) won more ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
The Perils of Perestroika The Perils of Perestroika
Is Mikhail Gorbachev, for all his vast presidential powers and commanding leadership of the Communist Party, merely to be a transitional ruler of the Soviet Union? If so, a tra...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Silent Reproach Silent Reproach
Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Too Good to Be True Too Good to Be True
This is the rather flattering self-portrait of a populist leader who has already traveled quite far: Boris Yeltsin, once a protégé of Mikhail Gorbachev, is now his ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
P.C.I.–What’s in a New Name? P.C.I.–What’s in a New Name?
I thought I was going to the opulent city of Bologna, with its ancient red-brick palaces, for the funeral of the Italian Communist Party.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Communism’s Great Debate Communism’s Great Debate
"Is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union still the ruling party, the political vanguard of the people? . . . Should there be a multiparty system? Does the C.P.S.U.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution
"Havel to the castle": In the doubly festive mood just before Christmas the heart of Prague was full of posters bearing that slogan and a picture of Vaclav Havel, the famous pl...
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
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