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The Battle Stalin Lost By Vladimir Dedijer

Viking, 343 pp., $8.50 To paraphrase Lenin, Vladimir Dedijer is a good writer fallen into the midst of Communists. But Dedijer’s Communists are Yugoslavs, and they can already boast one of Europe’s best political writers, Milovan Djilas, author of The New Class and former vice president of Yugoslavia. Djilas, incidentally, is one of Dedijer’s closest personal friends. In defense of Djilas’ right to dissent, Dedijer dared quarrel with the man he admires most—Yugoslavia’s President Tito.

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The Battle Stalin Lost By Vladimir Dedijer

Viking, 343 pp., $8.50 To paraphrase Lenin, Vladimir Dedijer is a good writer fallen into the midst of Communists. But Dedijer’s Communists are Yugoslavs, and they can already boast one of Europe’s best political writers, Milovan Djilas, author of The New Class and former vice president of Yugoslavia. Djilas, incidentally, is one of Dedijer’s closest personal friends. In defense of Djilas’ right to dissent, Dedijer dared quarrel with the man he admires most—Yugoslavia’s President Tito.