Socialism and the Soviet Bloc Socialism and the Soviet Bloc
Readers may recall the shocked grief and revulsion of Alyosha Karamazov as he discovered that the corpse of his saintly master, Father Zossima, was stinking.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Schools, Sculptors and Spring Fools Schools, Sculptors and Spring Fools
March 4. Hundreds of thousands of French citizens are marching today to defend "educational freedom"--that is, uncontrolled state subsidies for private Catholic schools.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
New Days That Shake the World New Days That Shake the World
With Boris Yeltsin triumphantly defying the establishment in Moscow, Lech Walesa guiding the Polish opposition into Parliament and Imre Pozsgay, a member of the Hungarian Politb...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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
Fiddling While Rome Smolders Fiddling While Rome Smolders
Is Italy on the eve of a major political crisis? Is a change of regime, or perhaps even the birth of a new republic, imminent?
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War
Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentali...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard
Suspense without passion is France's strange electoral mood for the moment. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's advisers are both perturbed and fundamentally optimistic.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The French C.P.–On the Way Out? The French C.P.–On the Way Out?
The French Communist Party has no future in the government. Does it have a future outside it?
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Partnership for Poland? Partnership for Poland?
There was no miracle at the polls for the regime of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order
Nineteen ninety-three, with its single market and its important steps toward monetary and political union, was to have been Europe's momentous A 1 year.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer