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Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
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Fanny Kaplan
Woman who tried to kill Vladimir Lenin (1890–1918)
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bolsheviks
Faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. As the founder and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Moisei Uritsky
Bolshevik revolutionary (1873–1918)
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky, also known by his pen-name Boretsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the head of the Petrograd Cheka from January 1918 until his death on 30 August 1918. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Red Terror
Campaign of political repression and executions in Russia by the Bolsheviks (1918–1922)
The Red Terror was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia which was carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police force. It officially started in early September 1918 and it lasted until 1922, though violence…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)