"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

Chekists were among the investigators of the attempt (Stalin had the
Latvian Jew Yakov Peters executed in 1942).
The 28-year-old Fanny Kaplan (actually Feiga Roydman) supposedly
explained that her attempt on Lenin's life was a personal political action,
but the doctor of history P. Sofinov has described the chain of events quite
differently in his book about the history of the Cheka (published in 1960).
I shall give a brief outline of his version.
After the meeting at Michelson's factory, Lenin left the shell workshop
together with the workers and walked towards the car. Suddenly a shot
was fired, then another and also a third. Lenin was wounded by two
bullets and collapsed just a few paces away from the car. The bullets were
poisoned. The female terrorist did not manage to escape, since some
children who had been standing nearby pointed out Fanny Kaplan to some
workers who apprehended her and took her to the Cheka.
Fanny Kaplan was a Social Revolutionary who organised terrorist
actions against the Bolsheviks and the Soviet leadership under orders from
the British-French imperialists. Despite the fact that Lenin was badly
wounded, his iron physique managed to survive both the wounds and the
poison. That was the way in which the "historian" P. Sofinov described
the attempt in 1960.
In 1924, Dr Weisbrod confirmed in Yaroslavsky's book that Lenin
recovered quickly. Did the poison have no effect at all then? It was
officially explained that the poison of the Social Revolutionaries was of
inferior quality and had no effect. Dr Weisbrod never mentioned any
poison. This story was invented later.
In 1938 the Stalinist propaganda asserted that it was Nikolai Bukharin
(Dolgolevsky), member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,
also called the "party's darling", who had organised the attempt on Lenin
together with the Social Revolutionaries. Kaplan had been his minion. He
was also accused of organising the murder of Kirov and was supposed to
have made plans to murder Joseph Stalin too. Bukharin was also accused
of the murders of Menzhinsky, Kuibyshev and Gorky. Finally, he was
supposed to have tried to poison Yezhov, chief of the secret police.
There is actually another version, from the 30th of August 1918. That
was an open message written by Yakov Sverdlov (actually Yankel-Aaron
Movshevich Solomon). He maintained that two people were arrested for
this attempt. Sverdlov claimed that they were definitely right wing Social
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