Willen Drenka (13 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good to better with light shelf edge and corner wear. A couple very small corner bumps and some light storage rubbing to covers. Interior is unmarked with clean off white to tanning pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 162 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. The cover has light wear, with minor foxing on the spine. The page edges are moderately tanned. 402 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing of 1st American edition. Very good+ hardcover with very good dust jacket, from a private home collection. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good+. Clipped DJ has rubbing and light age-toning. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover, has a minor lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, some mild smudging to the edges of the text block, and a small ding to the fore edge of pages 51-56. Overall, a solid, Near Very Good copy in a Good+, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps with creasing and short tears to the spine ends and cover corners, an approximately inch deep loss to the head of the front fold, a wandering creased tear to the front hinge, and rubbing with areas of faint smudging to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Additional images are available upon request. …

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 162.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. [10], 402, [2] pages. Index, DJ has some wear to edges. Rear DJ flap creased. Minor edge soiling. Until his expulsion from the Communist party in 1954, Djilas was a Vice President of Yugoslavia and one of Tito's chief associates. In this second volume of his memoirs, Djilas describes his activities in the 1930's, as he became active in the Communist movement. Milovan Djilas (12 June 1911 - 20 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A democratic socialist, Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe. Djilas helped Josip Broz Tito to establish the Yugoslav Partisan resistance and became a guerrilla commander during the war following Germany's attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's (KPJ) Central Committee decided that conditions had been created for armed struggle. Djilas had an important role in the Uprising in Montenegro which was a national example, spanning ideological lines. Large parts of Montenegro were quickly liberated. Djilas was widely regarded as Tito's possible successor and in 1953 he was about to be chosen as President of Yugoslavia. He became President of the Federal Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but he only held office from 25 December 1953, to 16 January 1954. DJilas was granted amnesty and freed after four years in jail. He continued as a dissident, living in Belgrade. Derived from a Kirkus review: Djilas, until his 1954 break with Tito one of the highest ranking Yugoslav Communists, describes his first decade as a revolutionary. A university student from a peasant family, he was caught up in the bohemian, anti-dictatorial ferment of the early Depression years and became a Communist leader -- though rarely an effective organizer, given the persecutions during the period and the party's failures to achieve a meaningful mass following. The book provides some basis for evaluating the political possibilities and failures on the left. It offers brilliant descriptions -- especially of prison life with its hunger strikes, tortures, and political discussions -- along with reminiscences about the mentality of Communist youth, when personal courage, not intellectual strength, was the criterion of true party spirit. Djilas' reservations about Moscow's switching lines takes limited shape. The composition of the party, the characterology of its leaders and followers, and the late '30's effort to uplift members' sexual morality are described alongside Djilas' search for a true synthesis between his poetic impulses and political creativity. A personal document, the book has the compelling quality of a battle memoir. First Edition [stated], Appears to be a second printing. G. Arvid Peterson (Author photograph) (illustrator).…