Milovan Djilas

Milovan Djilas
Milovan Đilas Милован Ђилас
Djilas in 1950
President of the Federal People's Assembly of Yugoslavia
In office 25 December 1953 – 16 January 1954
Preceded by	Vladimir Simić
Succeeded by	Moša Pijade
Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 14 January 1953 – 17 January 1954
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Blagoje Nešković
Succeeded by	Svetozar Vukmanović
Minister without portfolio of Yugoslavia
In office 2 February 1946 – 14 January 1953
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Minister for Montenegro in the Government of Yugoslavia
In office 7 March 1945 – 17 April 1945
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Blažo Jovanović (as Prime Minister of Montenegro)
Personal details
Born	(1911-06-12)12 June 1911 Podbišće, Montenegro
Died	20 April 1995(1995-04-20) (aged 83) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
Resting place	Podbišće, Montenegro
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1932–1954)
Spouses	Mitra Mitrović ​ ​ (m. 1936; div. 1952)​ Stefanija Barić ​ ​ (m. 1952; died 1993)​
Children	Vukica Aleksa
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Occupation	Politician theorist writer
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Branch/service	Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav People's Army
Years of service	1941–1957
Rank	Colonel general
Battles/wars	World War II in Yugoslavia
Awards	Order of National Liberation (1945) Order of the People's Hero (1953)
Philosophy career
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy Yugoslav philosophy
School	Marxism Djilasism
Main interests	Political philosophy
Notable ideas	New class
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Milovan Djilas (English: /ˈdʒɪlɒs/; Serbian: Милован Ђилас, Milovan Đilas, pronounced [mîlɔʋan dʑîlaːs]; 12 June 1911 – 20 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,^[1] Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe.^[2][3] 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.