The New Class was not an academic exercise written from a safe distance. Djilas wrote it while being persecuted by his own system. A hero of the Partisan war against the Nazis, Djilas fell out with Tito in 1954 over demands for democratic reform. After publishing excerpts of The New Class in The New Leader (USA), he was arrested.
The New Class is a political dissident work written by Milovan Djilas, who was formerly the Vice President of Yugoslavia and a high-ranking official in the Communist Party. Written while he was imprisoned, the book offers an insider's critique of the communist system, arguing that rather than creating a classless society, Communism had simply established a new form of oligarchy.
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