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...meantime, Dedijer the historian and Yugoslav patriot has had to come to terms with revolution in his own land. After a brilliant record as Partisan officer and member of the Central Committee of the League of Yugoslav, he was expelled from the party in 1955 for defending Milovan Djilas' right to speak. He also lost his chair in modern history at Belgrade University, and from 1960 to the present he taught and wrote at British and American universities. Recently returned to official favor, he is going back to Yugoslavia to begin a study of the Partisan...
...Djilas, Milovan Conversations with Stalin. (Harcourt, Brace & World...
...when the Communists marked their greatest gains, their ideological appeal was based on the "revolution of rising expectations." They promised food to the hungry, a better life to all. The great turning point came when ideology had to be replaced by performance. "Communism as an ideology," wrote Milovan Djilas five years ago in The New Class, "has mainly run its course. It does not have many new things to reveal to the world." Since Communism has lost momentum as a source of inspirational faith, the basic issue now is whether it can triumph as a practical economic blueprint...
...prisoner's voice, nervous at first, rose in a piercing accusation that stunned Belgrade's District Court. Shouted Milovan Djilas: "This trial is all propaganda...
...Milovan Djilas has been rebellious all his life, but he carried things too far when he loudly demanded that his friend and leader, Yugoslav Boss Marshal Tito, liberalize his Communist regime. Tito did not agree with his Vice President and wartime partisan comrade, but nonetheless told him: "Go on writing." It was cruel advice. For his efforts, Djilas was twice arrested, sentenced to nine years in solitary confinement for writing The New Class, the most devastating analysis of Communism yet published. Last year, after serving 3½ years of his term, the fiery Montenegrin was released on condition that...