Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas (.ePUB)
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Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas
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Overview: A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.
“In 1955 or 1956, when I was working on my autobiography, the idea occurred to me to set apart my meetings with Stalin in a separate book which could be published first. However, I landed in jail, and while I was imprisoned I could not very well write a book of this kind, even though it would deal with the past, for it could not but touch on current political relations. Only upon my release from prison, in January of 1961, did I return to my old idea. To be sure, this time, in view of changed conditions and the evolution of my own views, I had to approach this subject rather differently. For one thing, I now devoted greater attention to the psychological, the human aspects of these historical events. Moreover, accounts of Stalin are still so contradictory, and his image is still so vivid, that I have also felt it necessary to present at the end, on the basis of personal knowledge and experience, my own conclusions about this truly enigmatic personality.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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