Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf Jun 2026

The original Croatian/Serbian version ("Nova Klasa") contains linguistic and rhetorical nuances often lost in translation. Scholars hunting for the PDF version are usually seeking the original, uncensored text, or the rare 1957 first English edition, to study the precise terminology Djilas used for "bureaucratic ownership."

: The most accessible and complete version of the book in English is available for free on the Internet Archive . You can download or read the full PDF at this link: https://archive.org/details/TheNewClassMilovanDjilas . It contains the complete text with all chapters and the book's original formatting.

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"The new class appropriates its privileges and economic preference in the form of material gain and social prestige. The ownership of the means of production is not the same as the control of the means of production."

Perhaps the most prescient chapter, Djilas predicts that the Soviet bureaucracy would eventually either collapse or reform into a fascist-corporatist state. He did not foresee the 1991 collapse, but he correctly predicted the rise of security-state elites over ideological idealists. It contains the complete text with all chapters

To understand the book, one must first understand the man. Milovan Djilas was not a detached academic but a central figure in the Yugoslav communist movement. Born in Montenegro in 1911, he became a committed communist as a law student at the University of Belgrade, joining the then-illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1932. He was a key wartime leader in the Partisan resistance, a close comrade-in-arms of Josip Broz Tito, and by the war's end, he was one of the most powerful people in Yugoslavia, serving as a leading minister and eventually Vice President of the country.

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"The New Class" was widely read and discussed in the 1950s and 1960s, both within Yugoslavia and internationally. The book's critique of bureaucratic and authoritarian tendencies in socialist systems resonated with many people who were disillusioned with the failures of communist regimes.