A magnificent look at a dark and brooding canvas: the former East Bloc's attempt to find a new equilibrium. ZB: "If 'Never again' has any moral imperative attached to it, it has to be applied to new circumstances.... If 'Never again' means only that it is applicable if Hitler appears and there are Nazis with swastikas killing Jews in Kristallnacht and thereafter in Germany, then it's never going to happen again. So there is a moral obligation here [in Bosnia]. After all, this is happening in what is considered to be the more civilized part of the world. If legality and decency collapse there, the implications of that are far more consequent than if it happens in those parts of the world where violence is more pervasive and legality is less entrenched." "The great struggle today in Russia is really not between democrats and Communists. It's between those Russians, like Yeltsin, who say that Russia ought to be a normal, post-imperial national state, and those who say: 'No, inherent in the notion of being a Russian is an imperial mission.'"