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Subject(s)

• Internment camps—Ukraine—Donet︠s︡ʹk [Browse]
• Political prisoners—Ukraine—Donet︠s︡ʹk [Browse]

Related name

• Tompkins, Zenia [Browse]
• Murray, Nina [Browse]

Series

• Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature Ser. [More in this series]
• Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature Ser. ; v.5 [More in this series]

Summary note

In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.

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Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• TRANSLATORS' NOTE
• BACKGROUND
• FOREWORD
• THE TORTURE CAMP ON PARADISE STREET
• Chapter 1, THE ARRIVAL
• Chapter 2, ISOLATION AND THE PRISON CODE
• Chapter 3, FEAR
• Chapter 4, PURE EVIL
• Chapter 5, THE HOUR OF THE QUIET ONES
• Chapter 6, MADNESS OR NORMALCY?
• Chapter 7, TIME IN CAPTIVITY
• Chapter 8, THE BLUE LIGHT: TO KILL Yourself OR NOT?
• Chapter 9, TORTURE: A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
• Chapter 10, WHAT BROKE ME
• Chapter 11, SEX IN ISOLATION
• Chapter 12, THE ESCAPE
• Chapter 13, A HUNGER STRIKE IS NOT A WAY OUT
• Chapter 14, WHY THERE WAS NEVER AN UPRISING
• Chapter 15, MOUSEVILLE: WRITING in SPITE of
• Chapter 16, GOD BEHIND BARS
• Chapter 17, HUMOR IN CAPTIVITY
• Chapter 18, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
• Chapter 19, A STRANGE SURVEY
• Chapter 20, THE MAN WITH THE DOG
• Chapter 21, AN EXERCISE IN DEATH AND FREEDOM
• Chapter 22, NOT IN PRAGUE
• Chapter 23, WHITE NIGHTS
• WRITINGS FROM ISOLATION
• Author's Note
• CHRIST IN A GULAG, A Play in Two Acts
• NAMED AFTER VLADIMIR LENIN
• SOMETHING ABOUT SOMEONE
• HEROES OF THE TOCSIN
• TO A FUTURE ME
• THE BELL
• OF PIPES AND MEN
• AN ESSAY ABOUT A VOLCANO
• AN ATHEIST'S PRAYER
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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ISBN

9780674291096 ((electronic bk.))

Doi

• 10.4159/9780674291096

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