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Jail Diaries (Zatvorski dnevnik)
Djilas spent the better part of nine years in Sremska Mitrovica prison across two sentences, the first for The New Class and the second for Conversations with Stalin. He kept diaries there, and they have never been published. The Hoover Institution holds them as typescript in Serbo-Croat; the finding aid dates the surviving first part to 1958-1961, which is the stretch inside the first sentence. A prison diary by the first prominent dissident in communist Eastern Europe, written in the years he was being punished for the book that named the ruling class, is a primary source of obvious weight and it has sat unread outside one reading room for sixty years.
- Period
- 1958-1961
- Region
- Yugoslavia
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright — do not store. Unpublished, so the 95-year-from-publication term never began; United States law protects an unpublished work for the life of the author plus seventy years, which for a death in 1995 runs to the end of 2065. A lay reading of the calendar, not advice. 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://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0x0nd95v
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