Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destruction - Hardcover

Djilas, Milovan; Kalezic, Vasilije

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679433252 ISBN 13: 9780679433255

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The late author, who rose to preeminence in Marshal Tito's postwar Yugoslav government, only to lose faith in communism and become a persecuted dissident, analyzes the failure of communism in Europe and its effect on the future. 12,500 first printing.

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About the Author

Milovan Djilas was born in 1911 in Kolasin, Montenegro. In 1929, he enrolled in the University of Belgrade, where he began his involvement in political activity, becoming a member of the Communist Party in 1932. After serving a three-year prison sentence for his revolutionary activities, he assumed a leading role in the Party organization in Serbia and eventually entered the innermost circles of the Politburo and Central Committee under Marshal Tito.
        Over the years, Djilas became one of the leading ideologists and theoreticians of the Yugoslav Communist Party, taking an active and prominent role in the government. But after the confrontation that erupted between his country and the Soviet Union in 1948, he began to criticize the Party bureaucracy and to develop his ideas on

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e believer in communism who became disillusioned with the totalitarianism and corruption of the Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. A wartime partisan leader in Yugoslavia and later the number three man in the politburo, he broke with Marshal Tito in 1954 and spent most of the next decade in prison, where he began to write about the inner workings of the Communist system. Here, Milovan Djilas--who died in 1995-- discusses why communism failed in Europe, what its failure means for the future of the continent, and how he transformed himself from ideologue into humanist.
Djilas's publication, in 1957, of The New Class, which was translated into sixty languages, caused a worldwide sensation with its description of the bureaucratization of the movement, of the special privileges accorded its leaders and cadres, and of its reliance on secret police and repression. His new book reemphasizes and enlarges on those themes, giving the re

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679433252
• ISBN 13: 9780679433255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383