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FALL OF THE NEW CLASS

A History of Communism's Self-Destruction

By Milovan Djilas

Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by John Loud

Knopf. 383 pp. $30

Reviewed by Tad Szulc, a former New York Times correspondent in Eastern Europe.

This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Coincidentally, it also marks the publication of the last book by Yugoslavia's late Milovan Djilas...

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