Word: milovan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years later, his cycle of transgression and punishment became a routine. In 1961: expelled from Moscow University for arranging illegal poetry readings in Mayakovsky Square. In 1963: 15 months in a mental hospital for possessing photocopies of a Milovan Djilas book. In 1965: eight months for protesting the closed trials of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. In 1967: three years in a labor camp for supporting other critics of the system. In 1972: twelve years for telling Western journalists about Soviet psychiatric abuses...
...well as reign in Yugoslavia. He sees top party and government aides regularly. Matters involving foreign policy and the Yugoslav army are his personal domain. Says one Western diplomat in Belgrade: "He doesn't have to refer anything back to anyone for approval." Adds onetime Tito colleague Milovan Djilas: "His attitude is that of a good father...
...Marxist-Leninist states, egalitarianism is an empty slogan and socialist rule has become more a dictatorship of praetorians than of the proletariat. In a famous 1957 diatribe, Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas railed against the privileges accorded a "new class" of Communists?party hierarchs, ranking bureaucrats, managers of state enterprises, and superstars in the arts and sports...
Moscow's Least Favorite. If these articles were so offensive to Belgrade, asked Yugoslavia's Archheretic Milovan Djilas in a newspaper article last fall, why was Mihajlov not indicted when they first appeared? Answering his own question, Djilas notes that three years ago, the. historian's statements did not seem so threatening to the regime as they do now that "Yugoslavia's ideological and political course has changed." Tito, who will be 83 in May, has grown increasingly worried about his nation's ability to remain united and independent after his death. Thus...
...already an oldfashioned, authoritarian Communist in the Moscow mold. He began to pull Yugoslavia away from the Soviet model partly for economic reasons. While Moscow was wreaking its vengeance on Belgrade with a trade-crippling boycott, Tito discovered that the liberal reforms persuasively advocated by his brilliant lieutenant Milovan Djilas were not only popular inside Yugoslavia but also attracted badly needed sympathy-and aid-from the West...