| The Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet
Studies (SCRSS) is a library and cultural centre in London that
promotes knowledge of the culture, language and history of Russia
and the former Soviet Union (FSU). The Society is a Registered
Charity No 1104012 and celebrates its centenary in 2024. Find
out about the benefits of SCRSS membership.
The SCRSS Soviet Collections are a library and archive of the
arts, humanities and social sciences of the Soviet Union (1917-91).
See Library & Archive and Photo
Library for more information on the individual collections
and research, and search our online
catalogue. We also have a loan library for members' use.
We organise events and promote
Russian language learning. We are actively involved with, and
a founder member of, the Soviet War
Memorial in London. We facilitate cultural contacts between
the UK, Russia and the FSU. And we publish a journal, the SCRSS
Digest.
SCRSS Centenary 2024 - Next Events
Wednesday 24 April 2024, 19.00-20.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Oedipal
and Incendiary: Revisiting Pudovkin's Film Adaptation of Gorky's
Mother (1926) Professor Jeremy Hicks explores Soviet
film director Vsevolod Pudovkin's film The Mother, an
adaptation of Maxim Gorky's 1908 novel, and the film's reception,
particularly in the UK. Pudovkin boldly reworked the novel in
the spirit of the creative reflection on the relation between
Freudianism and Marxism in the 1920s, an intellectual current
repressed in the USSR from the 1930s. This is the third talk
in our series '1920s USSR', reflecting the decade in which the
SCRSS was founded. Booking via Eventbrite (through link above):
£5.00 (or £3.00 SCRSS members).
Saturday 4 May 2024, 11.00-16.00
Event: SCRSS Library
Opening for Members Non-members
- please contact the Society to make an advance appointment.
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