14 NOVEMBER 1992, page 12

A Symbol Of Decency

William Shawcross on the bittersweet life and times of Alexander Dubcek AT THE BEGINNING of 1990, a few weeks after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revo- lution retrieved Alexander......

Just Like Old Times

John Simpson discovers that the collapse of Soviet communism has not liberated politics in the central Asian republics Samarkand THE ONLY real luxury available under communism......