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While considering the French historian Pierre Nora's statement that "modern memory is, above all, archival," this essay introduces an experimental archive project focused on gathering social-organizing stories of nonconforming black women who began their work in and prior to the 1980s. The archivists, the filmmaker Julia Wallace, and the poet-writer-scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs, collect stories as they travel across America in a mobile home, committing to what Nora sees as "the obsession with the archive that marks our age."

Walker reviews Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black.

Schoenfeld reviews 'Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life' by Leon Aron.

CEAUSESCU'S SHADOW AND THE DILEMMA OF MODERN ROMANIA ARE EXPLORED IN THIS ARTICLE. IT ARGUES THAT EVEN UNDER THE MOST DEDICATED OF REFORMERS, ROMANIA IS CURRENTLY TOO ENFEEBLED TO JOIN NATO. INSTEAD OF ASKING ROMANIA TO FULFILL IMPOSSIBLY DEMANDING TARGETS IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP, THE ATLANTIC DEMOCRACIES SHOULD INSTEAD CONSIDER OFFERING TO REBUILD ROMANIA'S PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND PROVIDE SUBSTANTIAL AID FOR ITS TRANSITION TO A FREE-MARKET AND DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM.

Discusses economic decline, growing strength of anti-Western communists and nationalists, policy failures of reformers, the country's strategic importance, and political power of militant, pro-communist miners; Rumania. Political activities of miners in the Jiu Valley.