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Conversation with Milovan Djilas (1968-12-02)
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The former Yugoslav Vice President, who has served nine years in prison for his writings on the communist world, expounds on his life and times in an NET exclusive interview. This exclusive interview with Milovan Djilas will take place on the campus of Princeton University, where he is currently lecturing at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Djilas, who served as Head of Parliament and Vice President of Yugoslavia in the years from 1940 to 1954, was expelled from the communist Party and later imprisoned for his writings on the Tito Government and the course of international communism. His writings include "The New Class," "On the Aggressive Pressure of the Soviet Bloc against Yugoslavia," "Land without Justice," "The Leper," and "Conversations with Stalin," Released from prison in 1966; Djilas was recently accorded permission to leave the country for the first time in more than a decade. NET Journal - "A Conversation with Milovan Djilas" is an NET production. It runs approximately an hour and was originally recorded in color on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Milovan Djilas, Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia, Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study, Communist Party of Yugoslavia, The New Class, Conversations with Stalin, International Communism, Soviet-Yugoslav split, Political prisoners, Political dissent, Cold War diplomacy
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