Milovan Đilas
Yugoslav politician
Died when: 83 years 320 days (1006 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Milovan Djilas (English: /'d??l?s/; Serbian: ??????? ?????, romanized: Milovan Ðilas, pronounced [mîl??an d?îla?s]; 12 June 1911 – 30 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author.
He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government.
A self-identified democratic socialist, Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe.
During an era of several decades, he critiqued communism from the viewpoint of trying to improve it from within; after the revolutions of 1989 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, he critiqued it from an anti-communist viewpoint of someone whose youthful dreams had been disillusioned.
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