Review: The Last Days of Stalin

A weekend non-fiction book review.

Joshua Rubenstein. The Last Days of Stalin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, May 10th, 2016. 304 pp.

4 out of 5

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The publisher Yale University Press have published some really interesting works on Stalin including a really good one I enjoyed titled Stalin: New Biography of A Dictator.  In this book the author Joshua Rubenstein explores the death of Stalin as well as the weeks leading up to his death and the weeks following his death.  This book is well-researched, insightful and interesting.  Below are some of the highlights.

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Collection of 40 Apologetics Illustrations

Over some years I’ve been slowly writing down illustrations that I thought might be helpful for sermons or evangelism that has apologetics’ thrusts.

Here’s 40 of them arranged topically.

Illustrations in Defense of the Importance of Doctrines and the need for Discernment of False Doctrines

• The school bell that was a bomb and importance of being able to identify bad doctrines
• Secret Service do train with false currency as well with true currency
• Beware of parasitic false teachers and Polyergus breviceps Parasitic ants
• Why Doctrinal Details matter and the case of Kenyan accidental flight to North Korea rather than South Korea
• Marines’ Body Armor and Trust or Criticism of What One Believes

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