The Old Dissident & The New Beginnings; Djilas and His Prophecy of Communist Decay

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 3, 1989| Author: Dan Morgan | Copyright information

It has taken history almost a third of a century to catch up with the ideas of Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav communist revolutionary who once poured out his disillusionment with the communist system in a classic expose.

Now that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev makes many of the same criticisms that landed Djilas in jail for his 1957 book "The New Class," Djilas has slipped into the background, a prophet of communist decay who has been vindicated in his time.

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