The contributors of Patterns of Censorship Around the World show how censorship is used in totalitarian regimes to promote an official ideology and exert party control, in authoritarian regimes to restrict or eliminate civil liberties, and in liberal democracies to limit the freedom of expression.

Preface -- Introduction -- Censorship in Global and Comparative Perspective: An Analytical Framework -- Censorship and Language Taboos: The Supreme Court’s Flying Circus -- Totalitarian Systems -- Soviet Censorship’s “True Colors”: A Chameleon Adapting to Glasnost -- The Dual Nature of Censorship in Hungary, 1945–1991 -- Censorship in Castro’s Cuba: “Against the Revolution, Nothing” -- Authoritarian Systems -- Censorship in Latin America -- Censorship in the Middle East: The Case of Arabic Literature -- Freedom of Expression in the Third World: The Human Rights of Writers in Developing Countries -- Liberal Democratic Systems -- Freedom of Expression in Western Europe: Law and Practice -- The American System of Censorship and Free Expression -- Censorship in Israel -- The Censor’s New Clothes: Censorship in Liberal Societies -- Conclusion -- Trends of Censorship and Freedom of Expression