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Milovan Djilas papers, 1931-1989 (Hoover Institution, collection 80128)
The papers themselves: 43 manuscript boxes, one oversize box, 378 digital image files and three sound tape reels, 18.3 linear feet, in Serbo-Croatian and English. These are the manuscripts and typescripts Djilas sent to his publisher and friend William Jovanovich — more than a dozen book manuscripts, essays and articles for the Western press, correspondence, and the two unpublished works catalogued separately here — nearly all of them corrected by hand. Hoover acquired the collection in 1980 and took a large increment in 2014. The papers have never been arranged; the index of titles against box numbers in the finding aid is the only map there is, which is why this record carries the box numbers rather than leaving a reader to the catalogue.
- Period
- 1931-1989
- Region
- Yugoslavia
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright — do not store. An archival collection holds items of many different rights statuses at once and this record makes no single claim about all of them. Djilas died in 1995 and nothing in the collection is anywhere near free. The finding aid’s own terms of access read, in full: "For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives." 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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