Milovan Djilas
Books by Milovan Djilas
Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
Djilas was a Yugoslav communist who visited Stalin and spent quite a lot of time in the Kremlin after the war. He is absolutely scathing
The New Class
by Milovan Djilas
Djilas observed that instead of getting rid of a ruling class as was supposed to happen, Party members became the ruling class themselves. But it's not a class analysis in the sense that we mean. In Russia you could be a peasant or a worker. You couldn't be an intellectual because it didn't count as a class.
Interviews where books by Milovan Djilas were recommended
The best books on Communism, recommended by Robert Conquest
Esteemed historian of the Soviet Union recommends five books on Communism, from novels and personal narratives to theoretical works.
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Russia at War
by Alexander Werth -
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A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova -
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Reflections on the Russian Soul
by Dmitry Likhachov -
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Less Than One
by Joseph Brodsky -
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Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
Glorified by Russia, glossed over by the West, the siege of Leningrad is rarely seen for what it was – a tragic story of tremendous suffering and death. The author of Leningrad, Anna Reid, tells us what really happened there
