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.
Latest SCRSS Digest
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The SCRSS Digest,
Spring 2024 issue is now available online. Features by Dr
Caroline Wilkins on Velimir Khlebnikov and 'The Radio of the Future', Jane Rosen on What Are They Up To? The Formation of the SCR, 1924, and Dr James C Pearce on Why the USSR Needed 'The Golden Ring' Cities. Plus SCRSS news and book reviews.
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SCRSS Centenary 2024 - Next Events
Saturday 6 April 2024, 11.00-16.00
Event: SCRSS Library
Opening for Members Non-members, please make a prior appointment
by email.
Tuesday 16 April 2024, 18.30-19.30
Zoom Online Lecture in Russian: 'Moscow
Literature' in Contemporary Russian Culture / 'Moskovsky tekst'
v sovremennoi russkoi kul'ture Associate Professor Nataliya
Semenova returns to discuss the phenomenon of 'Moscow literature'
- part of the larger trend for mapping space already seen in 'St
Petersburg literature' and others. Free event for SCRSS members
only.
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 (via link above):
£5.00 (or £3.00 SCRSS members).
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