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“A Train to Moscow” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. the provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.

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Sasha is a very relatable character in this coming-of-age historical fiction. Anyone would say that they grow up trying to make their parents proud, except she has to do it in post-war Russia, living with a stuck in his ways Grandfather, a conflicted /loyal to country mother, and a Grandmother who silently supports her and outwardly believes in her. You get an inside look of daily life behind the “Iron Curtain” and root for Sasha as she succeeds in her dreams but finds out the draining effects they can have living in this post-war Russia, where the government is banning books and plays and other media to suppress any revolutionary thoughts in its citizens. Meanwhile she pines after a man that she seems to never have completely.