Stalin’s Grandchildren Stalin’s Grandchildren
“At the burial of communism too many people want to jump from the coffin into the funeral procession.”
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?
Jacques Attali cannot be too happy with the reason he is hugging the headlines.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Communism and the Left Communism and the Left
Susan Sontag’s controversial speech at the February 6 event at New York City’s Town Hall event honoring Solidarity, and responses from writers on the left.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature
The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks
What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?
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
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
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
Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution
1789 and all that.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
The Sound and the Furet The Sound and the Furet
The public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eternal because there is no alternative.
Jan 1, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama
Let's start with the Random House press release, replete with "Praise for Perjury"--a reissue of Allen Weinstein's book on the Hiss-Chambers case.
Oct 16, 1997 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky