This is another article worth a look. Depictions of Russian Culture in Cold War British Fiction: An Examination of the works of Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) by Olga Chuprakova deals with the mixed portrayal of Russia in the famed British Author’s novels. she idolized Tsarist Russia, Russian culture and classical writers like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky but her portrayal of Soviet life was far more bleak as was her character’s reaction to the revolution. http://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/12/05/depictions-of-russian-culture-in-cold-war-british-fiction-an-examination-of-the-works-of-iris-murdoch-1919-1999/