H. G. Wells Liveblogs the Consolidation of the Bolshevik Regime

Wells, 1920:

The vindictive French creditor, the journalistic British oaf, are far more responsible for these deathbed miseries [of Russia:] than any communist...

From H.G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows, 1920:

Russia in the Shadows: We spent a fortnight and a day in Russia, passing most of our time in Petersburg, where we went about freely by ourselves, and were shown nearly everything we asked to see.... In Petersburg I did not stay at the Hotel International, to which foreign...