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: Boris Yeltsin, once a protégé of Mikhail Gorbachev, is now his ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Gorbachev–Two Steps Backward? Gorbachev–Two Steps Backward?
"Comrade democrats--in the widest meaning of this word--you have scattered. The reformers have gone to ground. Dictatorship is coming....
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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
At the news that in Rome well over a third of the electorate voted for Gianfranco Fini, leader of the neo-Fascist M.S.I.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Death of a Collaborator Death of a Collaborator
Early on the morning of June 8, a messenger arrived at an apartment in one of the poshest districts of Paris bearing documents to be signed by a former high-level government offi...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
In the Heart of Le Pen Country In the Heart of Le Pen Country
Marseilles, France
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey
On March 21, French President François Mitterrand arrives in the United States for a three-day state visit. When he was elected President in May 1981, he was the subject o...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Top Down or Bottom Up? Top Down or Bottom Up?
It is a pleasure to watch, on both sides of the Atlantic, the professional prophets of "evil empire" now forced to perform their "agonizing reappraisals."
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 / Daniel Singer
Silent Reproach Silent Reproach
Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer