Cecil the Lion Had to Die

by Olena Stiazhkina

Book Overview

In 1986 Soviet Ukraine, two boys and two girls are welcomed into the world in a Donetsk maternity ward. Following a Soviet tradition of naming things after prominent Communist leaders from far away, a local party functionary offers great material benefits for naming children after Ernst Th?lmann, the leader of the German Communist Party from 1925 to 1933. The fateful decision is made, and the local newspaper presents the newly born Ernsts and Th?lmas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674291662
• ISBN13: 9780674291669
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.8"