Historical Documents

LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-82) Soviet political leader; Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1960-64), engineering the ouster of Nikita Kruschev; 1

NIKOLAY BULGANIN (1895-1975) Soviet politician; Premier of Soviet Union (1955-58), who was demoted for opposition to Khrushchev. DS, as Vice President

VATSLAV VOROVSKY Russian Communist leader; U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Scandinavian countries; killed in Switzerland (1923). TLS, as Ambassador to Italy, 1

LAVRENTY P BERIA (1899-1953) Soviet Union politician; the dreaded head of Joseph Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge...

GEORGI CHICHERIN (1872-1936) Soviet diplomat of noble birth; succeeded Trotsky as Foreign Commissar. DS, 1p, 1925, 4to, re an International Convention

MIKHAIL FRUNZE (1885-1925) Russian Soviet army commander; took part in Bolshevik revolution; People's Commissar for War; considered one of the f...

(Soviet NKVD) NIKOLAI ZAKHAROV, Soviet Major General; head of the Gulags. TLS, 1p, 1944, oblong 4to, re special equipment for metallurgical work. File

(Soviet KGB) YURI ANDROPOV (1914-84), Soviet Union Politician; appointed head of the KGB (1967); General Secretary of the Communist Party (1982). DS,

DMITRY YAZOV Soviet Defense Minister; actively involved in the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. His personal diary, compiled during the last da

(Lenin) GLEB KRZHIZHANOVSKY (1872-1959), Bolshevik revolutionary leader; friend of Lenin. A book about his life, in Russian. Signed and inscribed on f