Of Prisons and Ideas

by Milovan Djilas

This haunting chronicle by Eastern Europe's foremost political dissident relates his tortured life and thoughts in Yugoslavian prisons under two dictatorships--royal Yugoslavia and Tito's regime

166 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Milovan Đilas was a prolific political writer and former Yugoslav communist official remembered for his disillusionment with communism. Much of his work has been translated into English from Serbian. He was, above all, a literary artist. In several of his books, Djilas proclaimed himself a writer by vocation, and a politician only under the pressure of events.