„Unutrašnji emigrant”: političke ideje Milovana Đilasa 1954–1989
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje
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„The Emigrant Within”: The Political Ideas of Milovan Djilas 1954–1989
Abstract
The aim of this article is to examine the political ideas of Milovan Djilas (1911–1995) developed
in his dissident period (1954–1989). Once a highly ranked communist and revolutionary of Tito’s
antifascist partisan army in the Second World War Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas (1911–1995) became
widely known as one of the most important dissident figures in Eastern Europe. A noted reformist
since Tito-Stalin split in 1948 and political prisoner (1956–1961, 1962–1966), Djilas was deprived
from all public activity in his country until the end of communist rule. Author of more than twenty
books translated and published abroad, ranging from political analysis and memoirs to novels and
shorts stories, Djilas never truly gave up the ideals of the young talented writer he was in the early
1930s when he joined the communists. Declaring himself a democratic socialist, it was in his dissident period that he formulated a specific form of political philosophy which included his criticism
of communist ideology and Titoist authoritarian rule in Yugoslavia, but also wider thoughts on human condition, literature and philosophy in the 20th
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Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, dissidence, political ideas, „the emigrant within”, communism
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2014, nr 6, s.243–260
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978-83-63795-51-1