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Archive Collection description: DJI
Djilas Collection
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Djilas (Đjilas), Milovan (12 June 1911-20 April 1995), was a politician and writer. He was born in Podbisce, Montenegro. Djilas was an advisor to Tito during World War Two, a member of the Yugoslav Politburo between 1938-1954 and President of the Yugoslav National Assembly from 1953 to 1954. He later became a dissident and was expelled from the Yugoslav Communist Party.
Publications include:
'On New Roads of Socialism' (Belgrade: Jugoslovenska Knjiga , 1950), 'Conversations with Stalin' (London: Hart-Davis 1962), 'Parts of a Lifetime' (London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1975), 'Tito: The Story from Inside' (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1981), 'Rise and Fall' (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , c1985)
Contents
2 CDs of family photographs relating to his life and his family (covering dates c1910-2002):- CD 1 entitled 'Djilasi (1)' contains 308 images;
- CD 2 entitled 'Djilasi (2) contains 68 images;
Languages
Serbo-Croat
Related material
See also the Stella Alexander (ALE) collection
Access
Unrestricted access
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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