The Young Guardia
Alexander Fadeyev
About this book
Alexander Fadeyev's Soviet novel based on the real Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard), a group of young Soviet partisans who organised resistance against Nazi occupation in Krasnodon, Ukraine, before being captured and executed in 1942–43. Note: the title is more commonly rendered in English as "The Young Guard"; the transliteration "The Young Guardia" follows the source list.
Why it was banned
Reported as prohibited in Ketziot Prison.
Censorship history
Reported as prohibited in Ketziot Prison during the first Intifada. A Soviet anti-fascist war novel, its presence on the prohibited list alongside Shakespeare and Tolkien underlines that Ketziot's censorship was not limited to political texts but extended to world fiction broadly.
Bans
| Country | Year | Reasons | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israel | —lifted | Political | ||
| Reported as prohibited in Ketziot Prison (Ansar III), Negev, Israel | ||||