24 MARCH 1990, page 11

The Music Hostages

Nigel Lewis on how Poland holds Germany to ransom TWELVE years ago I was in Poland to look into the mysterious disappearance of a vast hoard of original and immensely valuable......

Is The Party Over?

Stephen Handelman asks what life is left in communism in the Soviet Union Moscow ONE of the best-loved stories of the late Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoy is called 'The Russian......