Milovan Djilas; Onetime Yugoslav Official Became Dissident

Milovan Djilas, 84, Yugoslav leader who changed his political philosophy to become communism’s first prominent dissident in Eastern Europe. Djilas was a member of Yugoslavia’s top leadership until 1954 and helped the late Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito create a Communist-ruled federation. But he was expelled from the Communist Party and subsequently jailed for nine years after he accused his fellow Communists of thwarting democracy. He repeatedly criticized the present Serbian leadership for its policies in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. On Thursday in Belgrade.