Daniel Singer

Europe Correspondent

Daniel Singer, for many years The Nation's Paris-based Europe correspondent, was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris.

He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman and the Tribune and appeared as a commentator on NPR, "Monitor Radio" and the BBC, as well as Canadian and Australian broadcasting. (These credits are for his English-language work; he was also fluent in French, Polish, Russian and Italian.)

He was the author of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 (Hill & Wang, 1970), The Road to Gdansk (Monthly Review Press, 1981), Is Socialism Doomed?: The Meaning of Mitterrand (Oxford, 1988) and Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? (Monthly Review Press, 1999).

A specialist on the Western European left as well as the former Communist nations, Singer ranged across the Continent in his dispatches to The Nation. Singer sharply critiqued Western-imposed economic "shock therapy" in the former Eastern Bloc and US support for Boris Yeltsin, sounded early warnings about the re-emergence of Fascist politics into the Italian mainstream, and, across the Mediterranean, reported on an Algeria sliding into civil war.

The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 to honor original essays that help further socialist ideas in the tradition of Daniel Singer.

 

Our Man in Moscow Our Man in Moscow

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Brightness at Midnight? Brightness at Midnight?

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath

When early Socialists dreamt of a society of equals, they could not even imagine a society with the productive capacities of America today. And yet equality looms more distant than...

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Auto Workers and ‘Sniffing Planes’ Auto Workers and ‘Sniffing Planes’

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

From Public TV to ‘Dallasty’ From Public TV to ‘Dallasty’

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Partnership for Poland? Partnership for Poland?

Solidarity’s victory.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Creeping Capitalism Creeping Capitalism

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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 ecu…

Jan 2, 1998 / 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

Mitterrand Le Petit Mitterrand Le Petit

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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