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Questioned about Milovan Djilas, a Yugoslav author recently jailed, Nikejic replied, "I know only what I read in the newspapers...
...effort to show the world that he was a Communist with a difference, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito always let a few disgruntled critics of his regime run loose for the sake of appearances. He was particularly magnanimous about the idiosyncrasies of his fiery comrade in arms, Milovan Djilas, Vice President and head of Parliament, who talked of decentralizing the government and letting the state wither away. But Djilas began to be more and more critical. Tito drew the line in 1954 when Djilas, writing in the party paper, demanded more democracy and free discussion. The party Central Committee stripped...
Since that day, Milovan Djilas has sat alone with his thoughts in the gloomy old Sremska Mitrovica prison.* The prisoner may not have changed, but Yugoslavia had. Tito had promised the nation many of the reforms that Djilas had advocated. The constitution, due in 1962, would, as Tito himself put it, feature "man as a producer and manager while the state should appear only as a coordinating factor...
...downtown Havana, the select inner ring of Fidel Castro's chaotic dictatorship this week celebrates its first anniversary in power. The building is not the national palace or the long-deserted Congress, but the tightly guarded headquarters of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). Yugoslav Theoretician Milovan Djilas once observed that the first duty of any Communist revolutionary is to destroy the political force that brought him to power and replace it with an enormous, patronage-rich bureaucracy. Castro has quietly smashed his own July 26 movement, populated by moderates, and handed to INRA the goal of remaking...
Product of Apostasy. Few of the Soviet world's captive minds have been as alone as Milovan Djilas'. Once a Tito favorite and Vice President of Yugoslavia, Djilas eventually convinced himself that Communism is the inevitable foe of revolutionary ideals. This disenchantment produced The New Class (TIME, Sept. 9, 1957), a dazzling indictment of Marxism as the opiate of the masses. An earlier product of his apostasy is Anatomy of a Moral, 18 casual essays written for two of Belgrade's leading journals when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin...