Having, like most citizens of the developed society read, heardand seen as much as I could of the stirring events unfolding in the Eurasian empire, I cannot, even now (8 September 1991) saymore than what I have thought since the crisis began. This is that,on the one hand, the collapse of Marxism-Leninism and of its political emobodiments had, if I may make a pun, and moreoverin French, been déjà prévu. Marxism-Leninism is dead and buriedeverywhere (with such eccentric exceptions as China and Cuba. But, as in the old song, one can well ask ‘where have all the Marxists gone?’ and ‘When will they ever learn, when will theyever learn?’).