Uhapsite Đilasa! Plan o hapšenju Milovana Đilasa 1981. u kontekstu ukupne politike prema disidentima u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji

Abstract

The work analyzes the historical and political circumstances under which the arrest of Milovan Djilas was planned in 1981, immediately after Josip Broz Tito’s death and during the new wave of repression in Socialist Yugoslavia. The presidency of SFRY and Security Service thoroughly examined the possibility of arresting Djilas on the grounds of ’decades of subversive work’ against the regime in the context of confrontation with the dissidents in almost all the republics at the beginning of the 80s. Djilas was supposed to be some kind of counterweight for the arrests in Croatia (Veselica, Tudjman…). However, he didnt end up in prison mostly because of opportunistic reasons and the regime’s aspirations not to lose the image of a country of liberal communism and cause the world’s reaction because of arresting a world-famous dissident. In this sense, Djilas’s case represents a paradigm of general political repression in Socialist Yugoslavia, therefore it is analyzed in detail here.

Keywords

• dissidents
• Đilas
• human rights
• communism
• Yugoslavia