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Conversations with Stalin (Susreti sa Staljinom)
Djilas met Stalin three times between 1944 and 1948, the last as the envoy Tito sent to Moscow to say that Yugoslavia would go its own way. This is his account of those rooms: the late dinners, the flattery, the sudden menace, and a man he watched himself stop believing in. It is a first-hand source on the Tito-Stalin split written by one of the few people present who later had no reason to protect either side, and it is also a document of its author’s own disillusionment, published while he was out of prison on the first sentence. Yugoslavia answered with another prison term. Translated from the Serbo-Croat by Michael B. Petrovich.
- Period
- 1962
- Region
- Yugoslavia
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright — do not store. First published in English in 1962 by Harcourt, Brace & World, translated by Michael B. Petrovich; the United States renewal is recorded as RE511769. THE RENEWAL WAS CHECKED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. A United States book published between 1923 and 1963 lost its copyright unless the term was renewed, so "published in 1957" is not by itself an answer. Stanford’s Copyright Renewal Database was searched for Djilas and returns renewal records for this work and for the other two major titles. The renewal is real; the work is not free. WHO HOLDS THE RIGHTS IS AN OPEN QUESTION, and this record does not pretend otherwise. The finding aid’s terms of access say only "For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives," and Hoover’s copyright policy pushes it straight back: researchers are "responsible for compliance with copyright law," including "identifying the copyright owner," and staff help only where Hoover or Stanford itself holds the copyright. No public record found names an estate, an executor or an agent for Djilas. His son Aleksa Djilas appears in the 1984-1989 publishing correspondence in this collection, which is evidence of involvement and NOT evidence that he holds the rights; the distinction is left standing here rather than closed by a guess.
- Source
- https://archive.org/details/conversationswit0000unse_t3m7
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