Conversations With Stalin

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DJILAS,Milovan

Harcourt,brace & World

Set in the closed world of late-nineteenth century Montenegro, Under the Colors tells the story of a heroic people's struggle to free themselves from alien rule. Milovan Djilas describes in epic style an era and a way of life that have long since disappeared. Yet this majestic historical novel has an import for today, when the voices of political prisoners are stifled in the prisons of many countries. Djilas writes of the psychological and ideological effects of imprisonment and torture for both the victim and oppressor. Under the colors is a novel that explores the concept of courage under conditions that seem totally destructive to the human spirit. Montenegro of the last century, a "land without justice," is a world where in T. S. Eliot's phrase, "there is only the fight to recover that what has been lost/ And found and lost again and again."

Under the Colors

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

"Now I felt that the world was so clear to me that I would be able to influence its destiny." That is the spirit of the 1930's, the period Milovan Djilas describes in "Memoir of a Revolutionary." He became a communist when the Communist movement in Yugoslavia was growing into the force that eventually gave form to modern Yugoslavia. Determined and heroically hardheaded, Djilas suffered brutalities at the hands of King Alexander's police. Undeterred, he continued to organize, write, publish, learn. For a while Djilas tried to combine his literary ambitions with his political ideals. But he soon realized that his "poetic passion" was in conflict with his revolutionary discipline. There is iron determination in this man who became, under Tito's leadership, a chief architect of the Communist revolution. The Yugoslav Communists built an organization strong enough to resist both Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. A tightly knot group personally and politically, they enforced a personal morality that drove some dedicated men to despair. Djilas helped to mild minds; others organized cadres. With Tito, Djilas maintained a special "father-and-son relationship." With almost perfect recall, Djilas tells of these years of struggle and triumph, of the time spent in prison, which was, he says, "perhaps the most important school ... for our spiritual transformation." This book is a rare study of human commitment.

Memoir of a revolutionary

Harcourt

This haunting chronicle by Eastern Europe's foremost political dissident relates his tortured life and thoughts in Yugoslavian prisons under two dictatorships--royal Yugoslavia and Tito's regime

Of Prisons and Ideas

Biographies & Memoirs

Parts of a lifetime

Prisions and Ideas

History

Rise and fall

Rise and Fall

Europe

Unperfect Society, The: Beyond The New Class by Djilas, Milovan. 8vo.

The Unperfect Society : Beyond the New Class

Military

Wartime

An account of the partisan campaign in Yugoslavia during World War II, written from the author's unique perspective-as a key leader of Tito's forces. Index; photographs. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.

Historical

HARCOURT, BRACE

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Conversations With Stalin

Under the Colors

Memoir of a revolutionary

Of Prisons and Ideas

Parts of a lifetime

Prisions and Ideas

Rise and Fall

The Unperfect Society : Beyond the New Class

Wartime

Conversations With Stalin