Mihajlo Mihajlov

Mihajlo Mihajlov (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Михајлов, pronounced [mixǎːjlo mixǎːjloʋ]; 26 September 1934 – 7 March 2010) was a Serbian author, academic and publicist.

Mihajlo Mihajlov
Mihajlov in 1966
Born(1934-09-26)26 September 1934
Pančevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died7 March 2010(2010-03-07) (aged 75)
Belgrade, Serbia
NationalitySerbian
EducationSarajevo Gymnasium
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
OccupationAuthor, academic and publicist

Mihajlov became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe after his arrest in 1965 and subsequent trial and conviction for which he spent seven years in jail.[1]

Biography

During his time as a lecturer on Russian literature at the University of Zagreb in Zadar, Mihajlov visited the Soviet Union on a professor exchange program and published an article describing his trip. After Josip Broz Tito had publicly accused him of Đilasism, the Yugoslav Government arrested Mihajlov on charges of "slandering a friendly state" and violating the press law by sending the manuscript of his banned article to an Italian publisher for which he was sentenced to nine months in prison.[2]

He was on the Editorial Board of Kontinent, an émigré dissident journal which focused on the politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites founded in 1974 by writer Vladimir Maximov. He was also on the original Advisory Board of the non-profit educational organization Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, founded by author Lev Navrozov in 1979.

References
  1. "Mihajlo Mihajlov, a Yugoslavian Dissident, Dies at 76". The New York Times. 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  2. United States Congress (1966-01-27). "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89th Congress Second Session Volume 112–Part 1 (page 743)". Retrieved 2020-04-11.


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