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Banned and restricted books in Yugoslavia
21 titles have been banned or restricted in Yugoslavia, recorded across 21 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
21
Ban events
21
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
6
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System | Milovan Đilas | 1957 | 1 |
| Conversations with Stalin | Milovan Đilas | 1962 | 1 |
| A Tomb for Boris Davidovich | Danilo Kiš | 1976 | 1 |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1859 | 1 |
| The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin | 1871 | 1 |
| The New Class | Milovan Đilas | 1957 | 1 |
| Thoughts of a Corpse | Prvoslav Vujčić | — | 1 |
| Castration of the Wind | Prvoslav Vujčić | — | 1 |
| Storytellers II | Boško Novaković | — | 1 |
| On Fierce Wound Fierce Herb | Ratko Zakić | — | 1 |
| A Message to Man and Humanity | Aleksandar Cvetković | — | 1 |
| Dictionary of Modern Serbo-Croatian Language | Miloš Moskovljević | — | 1 |
| Curved River | Živojin Pavlović | — | 1 |
| The Nickel-Plated-Feet Gang During the Occupation (Les Pieds nickelés dans le maquis) | Successors of Louis Forton | — | 1 |
| About a Silence in Literature | Živorad Stojković | — | 1 |
| Vunena vremena | Gojko Đogo | 1981 | 1 |
| Moscow Summer 1964 | Mihajlo Mihajlov | 1965 | 1 |
| Nož | Vuk Drašković | 1982 | 1 |
| Kad su cvetale tikve | Dragoslav Mihailović | 1968 | 1 |
| Frede, laku noć | Dragoslav Mihailović | 1967 | 1 |
| Golubnjača | Jovan Radulović | 1980 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 18
- Religious / blasphemy
- 2
- Race / colonialism
- 1
- Immorality
- 1
By decade
1870s1
1930s2
1950s3
1960s9
1970s1
1980s5
Documented bans
All 21 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Castration of the Wind1984
Thoughts of a Corpse1983
Nož1982
Vunena vremena1981
Golubnjača1981
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich1976
Kad su cvetale tikve1969
Frede, laku noć1969
On Fierce Wound Fierce Herb1967
A Message to Man and Humanity1967
Dictionary of Modern Serbo-Croatian Language1966
Moscow Summer 19641965
Storytellers II1964
Curved River1963
Conversations with Stalin1962
The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System1957
The New Class1957
About a Silence in Literature1951
On the Origin of Species1935
The Descent of Man1935
The Nickel-Plated-Feet Gang During the Occupation (Les Pieds nickelés dans le maquis)1879
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.