down the Constituent Assembly. On 30th August, 1918, Vladimir Lenin spoke at a meeting in Moscow. As he left the building Kaplan tried to ask Lenin some questions about the way he was running the country. Just before he got into his car Lenin turned to answer the woman. At that moment Kaplan fired three shots at him.

After speaking at a factory in Moscow, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot twice by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin was seriously wounded but survived the attack.

Several attempts are known to have been made on Vladimir Lenin's life. The most famous of them was committed on August 30, 1918, by the Socialist Revolutionary Party member Fanny Kaplan, as a result of which Lenin was seriously wounded. Contents. Direct assassination attempts; January 1918; March 1918; August 1918; Indirect assassination attempts; Robbery

This Day In History: Lenin Is Shot (1918) Ed - August 30, 2016. On this day in 1918, Lenin was shot after speaking to workers at a factory in Moscow. The Soviet leader is shot twice by a member of the Social Revolutionary party, a rival of the Communist Party. Lenin had repressed the party and many of its members were killed or imprisoned.

On August 30, 1918, Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, approached Lenin after he had spoken at a meeting and was on the way to his ...

Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Ukrainian Jewish woman, Socialist-Revolutionary, and early Soviet dissident. She was convicted of attempting to assassinate Vladimir Lenin and was executed by the Cheka in 1918. As a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Kaplan viewed Lenin as a "traitor to the revolution" when the Bolsheviks enacted one-party rule and banned her party. On …

On Aug. 30, 1918, Fanta Kaplan, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, attempted to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Lenin, shooting him twice.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party ...

What if the 1918 assassination attempt on Vladimir Lenin was successful? In this timeline, like OTL, Fanya Kaplan shoots Lenin twice at a Moscow factory in 1918. But instead of surviving, the Communist leader succumbs to his wounds and perishes.