EVENT INFORMATION

30
Augustus
1918

Lenin is shot in an assassination attempt; repression escalates

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📅 30 Augustus 1918 📍 Rusland

Lenin was wounded after a speech at the Hammer and Sickle factory. The attack became part of the context for intensified Red Terror, though the violence involved multiple institutions and actors; responsibility should not be reduced to one incident or person.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Vladimir Lenin

Fanya Kaplan

factory workers

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Cheka

Soviet government