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
Very Civil Disobedience Very Civil Disobedience
Whatever the ultimate effect last week's mammoth disarmament rally in New York City will have on the prospects for world peace, it did much to rehabilitate the idea of peaceful p...
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / The Editors
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
The Lessons of Defeat The Lessons of Defeat
The hour has not yet struck for an offensive by the left in Western Europe.
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
Papal Polonaise Papal Polonaise
The post-Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed in part because of the glaring contrast between theory and practice, promise and fulfillment.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Capitalism From Above Capitalism From Above
Boris Yeltsin celebrated the first anniversary of his reign in the mood of a satisfied yet rather puzzled survivor ("we jumped into the river not knowing how to swim...but we did...
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