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Banned and restricted books in Belarus
344 titles have been banned or restricted in Belarus, recorded across 347 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
344
Ban events
347
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
5
Most-restricted titles
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 299
- LGBTQ+ content
- 56
- Sexual content
- 52
- Violence
- 32
- Drugs / substance use
- 29
- Immorality
- 15
- Religious / blasphemy
- 9
- Race / colonialism
- 2
- Obscenity
- 1
By decade
1860s2
1890s1
1900s2
1930s3
2020s336
Documented bans
A sample of 50 of 347 recorded events, most severe and most recent first. Each links to its source where available.
Eliash Bart, Dzha: The Legend of the Stolen Heart (Technałohija, 2023)2026
Diaries of an NKVD Officer: A Documentary Exposure of Stalinism, comp., ed., and comment. by A. Zelenkova2026
Pavel Antipov, To Arrive Somewhere, Do Something, and Leave (Miane Niama, 2025)2026
Yuri Felshtinsky, Natalia Radina's Belarus. A Journalist Against the Dictator (ISIA Media Verlag, 2025)2026
Makar, The Last Generation2026
Kamiła Cień, Next Stop – Death2026
Maks Ščur, Where We Are Not2026
Alaksandr Cvikievič, Historical Works. Volume 12026
Local Elections in the Contemporary Political History of Belarus2026
The Human Rights Situation in Belarus in 2008. Analytical Review (Minsk, 2009)2026
The Contemporary History of Belarusian Parliamentarism2026
Collection of Analytical Reports2026
A Smile2026
BDSM. Infinite Kindness, Compassion and Mercy2026
Your Mari2026
Lessons in Sin2026
The Cannibal's Diary: The Story of the Japanese Cannibal Who Gained Fame Instead of a Prison Sentence2026
Prozac Nation2026
Seven Petals2026
Amnesia of the Soul2026
The Lamp of Methuselah, or The Final Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons2026
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk2026
The Song of Achilles2026
The Forest of the Dead2026
Release2026
The Absolutist2026
Exquisite Corpse2026
Fistula2026
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe2025
The Perks of Being a Wallflower2025
Secrets of Belarusian History2025
BNR-100: Celebration of the 100th Anniversary in Belarus and Abroad2025
The NKVD Executed People in Kurapaty…2025
The Worm2025
Ninety-Third2025
Ninety-Second2025
Blood and Ashes of Dražna: Stories of a Partisan Crime2025
Naša budučynia2025
Vincuk Viačorka. The Belarusian Journalist's Handbook2025
Leanid; Romanchuk, Yaraslau. Belarus at the Crossroads2025
Murder on Makajonka Street2025
The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution2025
Where There Is No Darkness: Radio Svaboda2025
The Idiot Is the Real One… (Minsk–Warsaw–Moscow, KONTRA-PRESS , 2001)2025
Fedor von Bock, I Stood at the Gates of Moscow (Moscow: Yauza-Press , 202 4 (?))2025
Erich von Manstein, Lost Victories (Tsentrpoligraf, 2023(?))2025
Erwin Rommel, Combat Operations in North Africa and on the Western Front in Europe, 1940–1944 (Tsentrpoligraf, 2023)2025
Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy (Scriptorium, 2020)2025
Present, Prospects2025
Verbrannte Dorfer. Nationalsozialistische Verbrechen an der landlichen Bevolkerung in Polen und der Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg2025
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