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This is what your paper should look like. Have your name and the class information in the upper left-hand corner of the page. You don’t need a cover sheet. Have the name of the author and book at the top of center of the first page. Be sure to use 12 pitch type, which is used in this paper. Be sure to double-space your text, so the lines are not bunched together. Your margins at the top and sides of each sheet of paper should be about the same as those on this paper. Your essay should be three pages long.
Conversations with Stalin is a memoir by Milovan Djilas, a former Yugoslav Communist remembering the three times he met Josif Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union and the leader of the world Communist movement. The meetings took place between 1944 and 1948, that is in the last years of World War II and the beginning years of the Cold War. Djilas wrote the book in 1961 after he had become disillusioned with Communism. He would be imprisoned by the Communist Yugoslav government for writing this book.
This book shows the inner workings of the government of the USSR/Soviet Union under Stalin as seen by a Communist outsider in the Soviet Union. Did Conversations with Stalin fit with what you already thought about Communist governments? Did it challenge your ideas or surprise you with what it showed about the operation of a Communist government?
What is the picture of Stalin that you have after reading this book? Did anything impress you favorably about Stalin? What impressed you unfavorably about Stalin? Was there anything he said that you found particularly memorable? Why did you find those statements memorable?
Milovan Djilas is our “guide” in this book. What is your impression of Djilas? Is he trustworthy? Why or why not? Why do you think he wrote this book after having been imprisoned for writing an earlier book and thus knowing the risks? Does this book shed any light on why Djilas became a Communist?
While Conversations with Stalin focuses on Djilas’ meetings with Stalin, the figure of the Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Tito is inescapable. What impression of Tito do you get from this book? In what ways does Tito perhaps come across as a positive alternative to Stalin? What do you think Djilas thinks about Tito?
Both the USSR and Yugoslavia, besides being Communist, were multi-ethnic states. Both countries broke apart in the 1990s. Talk about ethnicity and what is a nation is common in Conversations with Stalin. Were there any surprising instances when these Communists talked about nations, such as referring to Russia and Ukraine or Serbia and Croatia, instead of the multi-ethnic USSR or Yugoslavia that they “should have” mentioned? Why do you think that happened?
Conversations with Stalin was written sixty years before the current war between Russia and Ukraine. Are there any instances in the book where you find attitudes that might explain or foreshadow the current war? What do you think this means?
This book was written by a man who knew he would go to prison for writing it. How does knowing that make you think about this book? How does it make you think about a government system that would send a person to prison for writing a book?
You may quote from the book, but you keep your quotes short. “By God, that’s deep: everyone fights for what he doesn’t have.” (p. 80) You just need to give the page number, since your only source is Conversations with Stalin. Remember that you, and not Djilas, are writing this paper.
Conclude with an assessment of what you got out of reading Conversations with Stalin. Do you think a future HS 1020 class would benefit from reading this book?
The paper should be at least three pages long. Be sure the writing in your paper is the best that it can be. Beware of careless typos. Have someone read the paper before you turn it in. (Only printed copies of the paper will be graded.) The semester is drawing down, and every point counts.
Print and sign the Honor Pledge on the back of the last page of the paper.
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