Stalinville

Set in Kyiv in the turbulent years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Stalinville is a dark, unflinching portrait of a society emerging from decades of violence, repression, and moral ruin.

Jonah, a man from the social margins, survives by instinct rather than hope. After being confined to a psychiatric asylum—where the cruelty of Soviet power has grown into its most grotesque form—he escapes into the city, only to discover that the world beyond the asylum walls is no less deranged. Kyi...