More politically motivated name swaps:The communist era of the USSR occasioned name changes of some cities to honour Bolshevik supreme leaders –“Tsaritsyn”, the Tsarist era name became “Stalingrad” (after Joseph Stalin), only to change again to “Volgograd”); “St Petersburg” became “Pe...
Tres Coronas was formed in early 2004 by students at one of America’s most elite boarding schools. Surprising? Well, perhaps it is, but in a way it makes perfect sense. Without Stalin could there have been a Mandelstam a Bulgokov? Without the Vietnam War, could there have been a Woods...
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze begins in 1974, during the waning days of Emperor Haile Selassie’s six-decade rule, and sprawls into life under the Derg, the Marxist military confederation that terrorized Ethiopia after Selassie was killed. Through the vantage point of a doctor and his family, wri...