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Book Review of Breaking Stalin's Nose

Breaking Stalin's Nose
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Author: Eugene Yelchin
Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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This isn't a long and complicated story about the origins of conmunism, it's a story narrated from the point of view of a very young boy whose view of the society he lives in change as a result of loss of his parents and a series of unfortunate events that force him to revise the way he views a regime he swears to protect and love.

The story doesn't even provide a proper end but I didn't mind it at all. The open end of the plot invokes a family or group read discussion with the reader about what would happen to young Sasha and his beliefs in a society that he loves and trusts, the communist one.

The graphite illustrations are beautifully done and I commend the author for this, his first book.