a former Yugoslav Communist official who became a prominent dissident and critic of Communism

Milovan Djilas was a former Yugoslav Communist official who became a prominent dissident and critic of Communism.

Yugoslav politician, activist, and dissident writer

Milovan Djilas was a Yugoslav politician, activist, and dissident writer.

a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author

Milovan Djilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author.

a Yugoslav communist leader who subsequently became the first prominent dissident in the history of communist Eastern Europe

Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) was a Yugoslav communist leader who subsequently became the first prominent dissident in the history of communist Eastern Europe.

a writer and revolutionary who became a high-ranking official in Yugoslavia's communist government

Milovan Djilas was a writer and revolutionary who became a high-ranking official in Yugoslavia's communist government, then became a dissident again by critiquing the government

as an author of political writings about Milovan Djilas's experiences as a young communist as a high functionary after the war as a renegade

Milovan Djilas is known as an author of political writings about Milovan Djilas's experiences as a young communist before and during World War II, as a high functionary after the war, and, finally, as a renegade.

a writer and leading Yugoslav politician from Montenegro

Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) was a writer and leading Yugoslav politician from Montenegro.

the first high Communist official, , the adviser and likely successor to Yugoslavian dictator Titoto turn against Communism as a system

While other dissidents from Communism like Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Whittaker Chambers acheived a more epic historical stature, Djilas was the first high Communist official, the adviser and likely successor to Yugoslavian dictator Tito, to turn against Communism as a system.

Author

Author Milovan Djilas, at one time a Vice-President of Yugoslavia and a possible successor to President Tito, was returned to prison after violating a new Yugoslavian law that made Yugoslavia a crime to write about "confidential subjects that may harm Yugoslavia".

the Vice President of Communist Yugoslavia

Milovan Djilas was the Vice President of Communist Yugoslavia.

one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Milovan Djilas was one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and served in the government of Yugoslavia as Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council.

A self-identified democratic socialist

A self-identified democratic socialist, Đilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and the whole of the Eastern Europe.

after violating a new Yugoslavian law that made Yugoslavia a crime to write about "confidential subjects " that may harm Yugoslavia

Author Milovan Djilas, at one time a Vice-President of Yugoslavia and a possible successor to President Tito, was returned to prison after violating a new Yugoslavian law that made Yugoslavia a crime to write about "confidential subjects that may harm Yugoslavia".

and the brutal conditions under which the inmates were held in the Nazis's autobiographical account of the regime and the Nazis's part in his part , Rise and Fall of arrests

Milovan Djilas, a former Vice-President of Yugoslavia, President of the National Assembly and later leading dissident, describes the system of arrests and the brutal conditions under which the inmates were held in the Nazis's autobiographical account of the regime and the Nazis's part in his part , Rise and Fall.

one of the founders of the Partisan movement

Milovan Djilas was, with Tito, one of the founders of the Partisan movement which fought the Axis powers during the war in Yugoslavia and then a founder of communist Yugoslavia.

one of Stalin's favourite generals and one of the few senior commanders whom even Stalin admired for Milovan Djilas's ruthlessness

Milovan Djilas was one of Stalin's favourite generals and one of the few senior commanders whom even Stalin admired for Milovan Djilas's ruthlessness.

one of the most honorable anti-communist dissidents in the United States and Western Europe

In the second half of the last century, Milovan Djilas was one of the most honorable anti-communist dissidents in the United States and Western Europe.

one of the leading ideologists and theoreticians of the Yugoslav Communist Party

Over the years, Djilas became one of the leading ideologists and theoreticians of the Yugoslav Communist Party, taking an active and prominent role in the government.

the most powerful communist in post-World War Two Yugoslavia

Next to Marshall Tito, Milovan Djilas was probably the most powerful communist in post-World War Two Yugoslavia.

a Macedonian partisan

(Macedonian: Благој Јанков Мучето) was a Macedonian partisan who was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.