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.

 

Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks

Coup in Poland.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Gdansk Showdown Gdansk Showdown

In the medieval city of Gdansk, in a courtroom packed with police, three men stand in the dock.

Jan 2, 1998 / 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

Changing the political map.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Death in Vilnius Death in Vilnius

At stake in the drama now unfolding in Vilnius is not just the fate of Lithuania or the Baltic States but the destinies of Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika and the immediate futur...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Bad Memories Bad Memories

France is still feeling the shock of a legal decision destined to induce collective amnesia.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Ciao, Baby Ciao, Baby

One’s first reaction is shock.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Historic Moment Historic Moment

The meeting around a green table between representatives of Poland's ruling party and of Solidarity marks a serious new attempt to include the opposition as an integral part of the...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Solidarity—Lest We Forget Solidarity—Lest We Forget

To the Poland Station

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Bitter Hope in a Cold Climate Bitter Hope in a Cold Climate

Poland Diary

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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