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Primary Sources

(1) Victor Serge, Year One of the Russian Revolution ()

Lenin arrived alone; no one escorted him and no one formed a reception party.

When he came out, workers surrounded him for a moment a few paces from his car. It was at this moment Kaplan fired at him, three times, wounding him seriously in the neck and shoulder. Lenin was driven back to the Kremlin by his chauffeur, and just had the strength to walk upstairs in silence to the second floor: then he fell in pain.

There was great anxiety for him: the wound in the neck could have proved extremely serious; for a while it was thought that he was dying. The wounded man's own strength carried him through. Lenin was back on his feet in around ten days.

(2) Fanya Kaplan, statement made to Cheka before being executed (30th August, )

My name is Fanya Kaplan.

Today I shot at Lenin.

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I did it on my own. I will not say whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kil