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On Aug. 30, 1918 Fanny Kaplan - a Jewish Revolutionary Socialist, who was disillusioned with the development of the Russian Revolution - attempted to assassinate Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin…

Lenin took three bullets from Kaplan, two of which wounded him seriously. Kaplan was arrested, interrogated, and shot when she refused to name any co-conspirators. In the aftermath the Bolsheviks initiated a so-called Red Terror campaign, arresting and executing hundreds of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries…