Revolutionary Nostalgia Revolutionary Nostalgia
Slogans sometimes succeed in conveying the mood of a period.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Solidarity–The Road to Power Solidarity–The Road to Power
For the next weeks and months the eyes of the world will be focused on Poland, where events are now unfolding at an unexpectedly dramatic pace.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Dawn in Poland Dawn in Poland
Dual power, Lenin wrote, cannot last long. But just how long?
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism
The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.
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
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
Achille’s Gamble Achille’s Gamble
When Achille Occhetto, the new General Secretary, closed the debate at the Eighteenth Congress of the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) in Rome on March 21, the delegates gave him...
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
To Market To Market
Performing political acrobatics on the edge of the economic precipice, the Poles are also showing how very far it is possible to go in Eastern Europe in the era of Gorbachev.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
From Balzac to Salvador Dali From Balzac to Salvador Dali
"You are mistaken, dear angel, if you think that King Louis-Philippe rules--a mistake the King himself does not make.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution
Long live the Revolution--as long as it is dead and buried with no prospect of resurrection. That thought springs to mind as the French begin to celebrate the bicentennial of ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer