Related Program: The Reader’s Notebook The Reader’s Notebook: Fanny Kaplan By Greg Jenkins • Feb 10, 2021 Related Program: The Reader’s Notebook ShareTweetEmail Credit www.rbth.com February 10, 2021 -- Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian-Jewish woman, Socialist-Revolutionary, and early Soviet dissident who was convicted of attempting to assassinate Vladimir Lenin and executed by the Cheka in 1918. Listen Listening... / 4:17 ShareTweetEmailView the discussion thread.