Fanny Kaplan
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Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
Фанни Ефимовна Каплан
Vladimir Pchelin's depiction of the assassination attempt
Moisei Uritsky
The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a major socialist political party in the late Russian Empire, during both phases of the Russian Revolution, and in early Soviet Russia. The party members were kno
Fanny Kaplan
…Kaplan (Russian: Фанни Ефимовна Каплан; real name Feiga Haimovna Roytblat, Фейга Хаимовна Ройтблат; 10 February 1890 – 3 September 1918) was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918. Born into a Jewish family, Kaplan served a sentence…
Kampf un kempfer, a Yiddish pamphlet published by the SRs exile branch in London, 1904
The leaders of the party at its Third Congress, June 1917
1917 SRs election poster whose caption in red reads партія соц.-рев. (in pre-1918 Russian), short for Party of the Socialist-Revolutionaries; the banner bears the party's motto Russian: Въ борьбѣ обрѣтешь ты право свое ("Through struggle you will attain your rights"); and the globe bears the slogan земля и воля ("land and freedom"), expressing the agrarian socialist ideology of the party.