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Banned and restricted books in Czech Republic
7 titles have been banned or restricted in Czech Republic, recorded across 8 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
7
Ban events
8
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
5
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | 2 |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1925 | 1 |
| The Power of the Powerless | Václav Havel | 1978 | 1 |
| Closely Observed Trains | Bohumil Hrabal | 1965 | 1 |
| I Served the King of England | Bohumil Hrabal | 1971 | 1 |
| Too Loud a Solitude | Bohumil Hrabal | 1976 | 1 |
| A Czech Dreambook | Ludvík Vaculík | — | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 7
- Race / colonialism
- 1
By decade
1920s1
1930s1
1940s1
1970s4
1980s1
Documented bans
All 8 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
A Czech Dreambook1980–1989
The Power of the Powerless1978–1989
Too Loud a Solitude1976–1989
I Served the King of England1971–1989
Closely Observed Trains1970–1989
Mein Kampf1945
All Quiet on the Western Front1933
All Quiet on the Western Front1929
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.