Milovan Đilas

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Yugoslav politician, theorist and author (1911-1995)

PoliticiansLived 1911 to 1995 · aged 83

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A Yugoslav communist who rose through the Partisan ranks during World War II, then turned into one of Eastern Europe's most prominent dissidents - criticizing the very system he helped build.

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Milovan Đilas (1950)

Djido, Bevc, Leka

Grupa delegata na Sveslovenskom saboru u Sofiji 1945

Ivo Lola Ribar i Milovan Đilas

Ivo Rukavina, Milovan Đilas, Vlado Popović i Pavle Ilić

Kardelj, Tito i Đilas, 1949

Kardelj, Tito i Đilas

Marko Vujačić i Milovan Đilas, Jasenovo Polje, marta 1942

Awards 8

People's Hero of Yugoslavia

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Order "For Merit to the People"

Order of the Partisan Star

Order of the People's Liberation

Order of Brotherhood and Unity

Order of Bravery

Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941

In their orbit 4

SpouseMitra Mitrović

FatherNikola Đilas

SiblingAleksa Đilas Bećo

SiblingMilivoje Djilas Minjo

Connected to Milovan 6

Aleksei AntonovAlso won Order "For Merit to the People"

Rodion MalinovskyAlso won People's Hero of Yugoslavia

Ante MarkovićAlso won Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941

Nikolay Gerasimovich KuznetsovAlso won Order of the Partisan Star

Miroslav KrležaAlso won Order of Brotherhood and Unity

Alexander of BattenbergAlso won Order of Bravery

About this person

Milovan Đilas was born on 12 June 1911 and became a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, fighting his way into Yugoslavia's post-war government as a communist insider. Somewhere along that arc he shifted, identifying as a democratic socialist and breaking with the regime. The transformation made him one of the best-known dissidents in Yugoslavia and across Eastern Europe - a theorist and author now writing against the apparatus he once served. He died on 20 April 1995.