![]() ![]() He lives in California with his wife and children. Breaking Stalin's Nose is one of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011 About the Author:Įugene Yelchin has illustrated several books for children, including Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? and Won Ton. Eugene Yelchin's moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. Plot Summary Young Sasha Zaichik was a faithful follower of Stalin. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC. ![]() He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs. The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.Ī Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.Ī Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.īut now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: ![]()
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