Conversations With Stalin

History

Milovan Đjilas

Military

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Following his expulsion from the top rank of the Yugoslav Communist government, Milovan Djilas was imprisoned from 1956 to 1961. This is one of three books he wrote in prison. It is a remarkable story, being part history and part fiction, a blend of reality and legend. The ballad-like tone of Montenegro, with its deep and clear awareness that violence both destroys and heightens life, resembles Land Without Justice, the autobiography of Djilas's early years. [from the dust jacket]

Montenegro

Harcourt,brace & World

Translated from the Croatian by Lovette F. Edwards. Dust jacket design by Wendell Minor. 13 short stories.

The Stone and the Violets

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

A revealing, complex, and intimate portrait of Tito by his one-time, right-hand man. Milovan Djilas headed Yugoslavia's Communist Party with Tito before World War II; served with him during the war; and then became his vice president. But, in 1954, Djilas broke with the regime and afterwards was twice jailed as a dissident. Writing in prison and out, he produced this unequaled document, capturing Tito's aristocratic pretensions; appetite for luxury; relationships with women; betrayals; and brilliance as a leader--constantly defying the Soviets and always fearing for his country's future.

Tito: The Story from Inside

Harcourt

The importance of Milovan Djilas's reflections on Communism is heightened not only by the personal suffering he has undergone to make them known, during some nine years as a political prisoner in Yugoslavia, but also by his dramatic experience as an administrator in that Communist state.  In "The Unperfect Society," he goes beyond the disillusionment of his earlier book, "The New Class," and examines the origins and claims of Communist ideology.  He finds that communism, like all utopianisms, became dangerous because it confuses aims with means, ideas with realities, mankind with men.  He also declares that although some Communist societies will persist, Communist ideology is in a state of disintegration and is no longer acceptable - even to Communist leaders - as a means of social organization.  Djilas delivered the manuscript of "The Unperfect Society" when he visited the United States in the fall of 1968.

The Unperfect Society: Beyond the New Class

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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