Identifier: russiainshadows01well (find matches)
Title: Russia in the shadows
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Subjects: Communism
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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QUINTESSENCE OF BOLSHEVISM workers kept together by the vigorous leadership of a gentleman named MacManus. Their dearest convictions struggled against my manifest candour. They are clinging desperately to the belief that there are hundreds of thousands of convinced Communists in Britain, versed in the whole gospel of Marx, a proletarian solidarity, on the eve of seizing power and proclaiming a British Soviet Republic. They hold obstinately to that after three years of waiting—but their hold weakens. Among the most amusing things in this queer intellectual situation are the repeated scoldings that come by wireless from Moscow to Western Labour because it does not behave as Marx said it would behave. It isn't red—and it ought to be. It is just yellow. My conversation with Zenovieff was particularly curious. He is a man with the voice and animation of Hilaire Belloc, and a lot of curly coal-black hair. You have civil war in Ireland, he said. Practically, said I. Which do you consider 95 RUSSIA

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