The Torture Camp on Paradise Street / / Stanislav Aseyev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Aseyev, Stanislav,
• MitwirkendeR: Murray, Nina,; Tompkins, Zenia,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard library of Ukrainian literature ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

In The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk. This memoir recounts an endless ordeal of psychological and physical abuse, including torture and rape, inflicted upon the author and his fellow inmates over the course of nearly three years of illegal incarceration spent largely in the prison called Izoliatsiia (Isolation). Aseyev also reflects on how a human can survive such atrocities and reenter the world to share his story.Since February 2022, numerous cases of illegal detainment and extreme mistreatment have been reported in the Ukrainian towns and villages occupied by Russian forces during the full-scale invasion. These and other war crimes committed by Russian troops speak to the horrors wreaked upon Ukrainians forced to live in Russian-occupied zones. It is important to remember, however, that the torture and killing of Ukrainians by Russian security and military forces began long before 2022. Rendered deftly into English, Aseyev’s compelling account offers a critical insight into the operations of Russian forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- CHRIST IN A GULA G -- NAMED AFTER VLADIMIR LENIN -- SOMETHING ABOUT SOMEONE -- HEROES OF THE TOCSIN -- HEROES OF THE TOCSIN -- THE BELL -- OF PIPES AND MEN -- AN ESSAY ABOUT A VOLCANO -- AN ATHEIST’S PRAYER -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS