Word: milovan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CLASS, by Milovan Djilas...
Having just read The New Class, I should like to nominate Milovan Djilas...
...Milovan Djilas in The New Class
...tiny courtroom in the little town of Sremska Mitrovica, 42 miles from Belgrade, Milovan Djilas went on trial last week on charges of creating hostile propaganda against Communism and the Yugoslav government. Djilas' trial had been inevitable ever since The New Class, his outspoken book indicting the new ruling class produced by Communism, was smuggled out of Yugoslavia and published in the U.S. two months ago (TIME, Sept. 9). And just as the trial was inevitable, so was its outcome...
...trial lasted just one day. The verdict of guilty was returned the following morning, and Milovan Djilas was sentenced to seven more years at hard labor. After the verdict was read, Djilas rose and started to protest not the verdict or the sentence, but the court's attempt to make it appear that he had had an open trial. He was not permitted to finish. Two guards hustled him out of the courtroom and back to prison...