A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

LAVRENTY PAVLOVICH BERIA: (1899 - 1953) Russian politician, the dreaded head of Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge ...

LAVRENTY PAVLOVICH BERIA: (1899 - 1953) Russian politician, the dreaded head of Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge ...

NIKITA KHRUSCHEV: (1906 - 1982) Soviet leader who engineered the ouster of Khrushchev, chairman of the Presidium, and established the Brezhnev Doctrin

LEONID BREZHNEV: (1906 - 1982) Soviet leader who engineered the ouster of Khrushchev, chairman of the Presidium, and established the Brezhnev Doctrine

FIDEL CASTRO: (b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first

ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA: (1928 - 1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, allied with Fidel and Raul Castro in their succ...

ISABELLA I: (1451 - 1504) "Isabella the Catholic", Queen of Spain (1474-1504) who approved and financed Columbus' proposal to seek out...

ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA: (1794 - 1876) Mexican general and politician, a President of Mexico who sought to crush the Texas Revolution, seizing the

JOSE ANTONIO DE SUCRE: (1795 1830) Venezuelan general and liberator, first President of Bolivia. Scarce L.S. "A. J. de Sucre" on "Rep...

LOUIS XIV: (1638 - 1715) "The Sun King", King of France who undertook a series of wars with neighboring countries, yet is most remembered ...