Books, Arts & Manners: Stealing Djilas

Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism’s Self-Destruction, by Milovan Djilas, edited by Vasilije Kalezic, translated by John Loud (Knopf, 383 pp., $30)

THERE must have been many things about Milovan Djilas that Tito found intensely irritating. All dissidents are unwelcome to the rulers of one-party states, but none can be more infuriating than a dissident who has played a vital role in helping to set up that state in the first place.

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Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism’s Self-Destruction, by Milovan Djilas, edited by Vasilije Kalezic, translated by John Loud (Knopf, 383 pp., $30)

THERE must have been many things about Milovan Djilas that Tito found intensely irritating. All dissidents are unwelcome to the rulers of one-party states, but none can be more infuriating than a dissident who has played a vital role in helping to set up that state in the first place.