It Requires a Literary Bomb

It Requires a Literary Bomb Milovan Djilas (1911 – 1995) who was born in Yugoslavia, was influenced in his early youth by communism and became an active member of the communist party. Later in life, he rose to become the Vice President of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. But when he saw the practical results of communism, he became a strong critic of the communist regime. In 1957, Djilas published a book, The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, in which he argued that communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was not egalitarian, and that it was establishing a new class of privileged party bureaucrats, who enjoyed material benefits from their positions. This book proved to be very successful and was translated into more than 40 languages. Reviews on this book were written throughout the world. The Reader’s Digest reviewed the book under the title: The Book That Is Shaking the Communist World.1 America was strongly opposed to communist Russia, but rather than drop a nuclear bomb on it, it devised and supported a literary campaign against the communist regime. A sizeable number of books were published and disseminated in various