Milovan Djilas
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| Born |
4 June 1911 (or 12 June 1911) Podbišće (Mojkovac), Kingdom of Montenegro |
| Died | 20 April 1995 (aged 83) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia |
| Era | 20th century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
Milovan Djilas (pronounced [mîlɔʋan dʑîlaːs]; Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Ђилас; 4 June or 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, Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and the whole of the Eastern Bloc.
Born in Podbišće near Mojkovac, Kingdom of Montenegro, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia as a University of Belgrade student in 1932. He was a political prisoner from 1933-36. In 1938 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and became a member of its Politburo in 1940. In April 1941, as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and their allies defeated the Royal Yugoslav Army and dismembered the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Đilas helped Josip Broz Tito establish the Yugoslav Partisan resistance, and was a guerrilla commander during the war. Following Germany's attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June (Operation Barbarossa), the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's (KPJ) Central Committee decided that conditions had been created for armed struggle, and, on 4 July, passed the resolution to begin the uprising. Đilas was sent to Montenegro to organize and raise the struggle against the Italian occupying force, which on 12 July 1941 proclaimed the fascist puppet entity Kingdom of Montenegro run by Sekula Drljević, and closely controlled by the Italian authority of Mussolini's confidant Alessandro Biroli. The Uprising in Montenegro which Đilas had an important role in was a national one, spanning ideological lines, and large parts of Montenegro were quickly liberated. Đilas remained in Montenegro until November.
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