New Class:Analysis Of Communist System: An Analysis Of The Communist System (Harvest/HBJ Book) - Softcover

Djilas, Milovan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015665489X ISBN 13: 9780156654890

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2009

Synopsis

"The New Class" created a sensation was published in the United States in 1957, because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly analyzed his disillusionment with the system. Djilas, a former associate of Tito's who had traveled from the lowest to the highest rung of the hierarchical ladder and who was imprisoned for his views, had found himself increasingly estranged from contemporary Communism and attracted to the idea of democratic socialism. Here, however, he puts aside the story of his personal evolution to write a detached, lucid, courageous critique of the Communist system: its roots, the character of its revolutions, the rise of its powerful political bureaucracy -- "the new class" -- in what was intended to be a classless society, its one-party state, its economic policies, and its tyranny over minds. Finally, Djilas examines the essence of the conflict between the U.S.S.R. and the West that continues to this day. In the present atmosphere of intensifying confrontation, The New Class is more significant than ever.

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About the Author

Until his expulsion from the Communist party in 1954, Milovan Djilas was a vice-president of Yugoslavia and one of Tito's three highest aides. He was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government from 1957 to 1961 and was returned to prison in 1962 because of the publication of Conversations with Stalin. Writing both in prison and out, he produced several important and popular critical studies of communism as well as short stories, novels, and personal memoirs. He died in 1995.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015665489X
• ISBN 13: 9780156654890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228