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.

 

P.C.I.—What’s in a New Name? P.C.I.—What’s in a New Name?

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Papal Polonaise Papal Polonaise

The post-Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed in part because of the glaring contrast between theory and practice, promise and fulfillment.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Capitalism From Above Capitalism From Above

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Bloody Cul-de-Sac The Bloody Cul-de-Sac

On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro—a key figure of Italy’s ruling Christian Democracy—was captured in Rome in broad daylight by the Red Brigades.

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

The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Europe Notebook Europe Notebook

For the Western press the Chernobyl disaster was splendid copy, both sensational and anti-Soviet.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution

1789 and all that.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / 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.

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

Socialism’s Setting Sun Socialism’s Setting Sun

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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