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Note: events prior to 2003 are not listed
2024
December 2024
In-Person Exclusive Event: An Audience with
Helen Sharman CMG OBE, Britain's First Astronaut in 1991, for
SCRSS Members Only
In-Person Event: End-of-Centenary-Year Celebration
for SCRSS Members Only
November 2024
Evening Exhibition Viewing: A Centenary History
of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects
In-person Book Event: Jane Rosen on 'An Unpopular
Cause: A Centenary History of the Society for Cultural Relations
with the USSR 1924-2024'
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Exhibition
'A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects' - one Saturday
in November
October 2024
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Good Intermediate Level (from October 2024 for 10 weeks)
Evening Exhibition Viewing: A Centenary History
of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects
Zoom Online Lecture for SCRSS Members Only: Dr
Olga Arkhipova on The State Hermitage Museum
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Exhibition
'A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects' - one Saturday
in October
September 2024
Zoom Online Talk: Assiya Issemberdiyeva on Imagining
Central Asia on Film: The Soviet Folklorisation of Cultural Identity
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Exhibition
'A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects' - one Saturday
in September
August 2024
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Exhibition
'A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects' - one Saturday
in August
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Good Intermediate Level (from August 2024 for 10 weeks)
July 2024
In-person Event: SCRSS Centenary Celebration
1924-2024 for Members (with launch of centenary exhibition 'A
Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects')
June 2024
Event: SCRSS Library Opening - one Saturday
in June
May 2024
In-person Lecture: Christine Lindey on Alexander
Deineka (1899-1969), People’s Artist of the USSR
In-person Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Good Intermediate Level (from May 2024 for 10 weeks)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening - one Saturday in
May
April 2024
Zoom Online Lecture: Professor Jeremy Hicks
on Oedipal and Incendiary: Revisiting Pudovkin's Film Adaptation
of Gorky's 'Mother' (1926)
Zoom Online Lecture in Russian for Members Only:
Associate Professor Nataliya Semenova on Moskovsky tekst v sovremennoi
russkoi kul'ture (Moscow Literature in Contemporary Russian Culture)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening - one Saturday in
April
March 2024
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew George on Andrei
Platonov's 'Chevengur' as a Marxist Novel
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Good Intermediate Level (from March 2024 for 10 weeks)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening - one Saturday in
March
Zoom Online Lecture in Russian for Members Only: Associate
Professor Nataliya Semenova on The Nostalgia Trend in Contemporary
Russian Literature (Nostal'gicheskaya tendentsiya v sovremennoi
russkoi literature)
February 2024
Zoom Online Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring
on Lenin, Self-Determination of Nations and the 1924 Constitution
of the USSR
Event: SCRSS Library Opening - one Saturday in
February
January 2024
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language
for Good Intermediate Level (from January 2024 for 10 weeks)
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2023
December 2023
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level (from
December 2023 for 10 weeks)
In-person Event: SCRSS Centenary Launch and Christmas Party for SCRSS
Members
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in December
November 2023
Zoom Online Talk: Colin Turbett on 'A People's
History of the Cold War: Stories from East and West'
In-person Event: Jean Turner Memorial Event for SCRSS Members
In-person Talk and Book Launch Kate Clark on
'Twilight of the Soviet Union: Memoirs of a Moscow Correspondent'
Zoom Online Talk: Helen Mercer on James Aldridge: A Real Literary Idol of
Soviet Readers
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in November
October 2023
Zoom Online Lecture: Charlie Buxton on Civil Society in Central Asia at a
Time of Conflict
Zoom Online Lecture: Dr James C Pearce on Soviet Memories of Rus': Why
The Soviet State Needed the Golden Ring Cities
Zoom Online Lecture in Russian for Members: Professor
Igor Nabok on Korennye, malochislennye narody Severa, Sibiri i
Dal'nego Vostoka Rossii - Istoriya i sovremennost' (The Indigenous
Small-Numbered Peoples of the Russian Far North, Siberia and Far
East - Past and Present)
September 2023
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level
(from September 2023 for 10 weeks)
Zoom Online Talk in Russian for Members: Sergei
Abramovich on Tsifrovaya Rossiya: kogda goroda stanut umnymi i
kakie nuzhny dlya etogo tekhnologii (Digital Russia: when will
cities become smart and the technology needed for this)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in September
July 2023
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in July
June 2023
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level
(from June 2023 for 10 weeks)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in June
May 2023
In-person Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
In-person Lecture: Jane Rosen on The Co-operators, the Peacemakers and the
Enigmas: Women in the SCR
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in May
April 2023
Zoom Online Lecture: Assiya Issemberdiyeva on The Wartime Evacuation of
Soviet Cinema and the National Question
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one
Saturday in April
March 2023
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level
(from March 2023 for 10 weeks)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in March
February 2023
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Navigating Russian Conversations
and the Devices We Use
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in February
January 2023
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level
(from January 2023 for 10 weeks)
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2022
December 2022
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in December
November 2022
Hybrid Lecture: Professor Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books
In-person Lecture: Christine Lindey on Representation of Workers in Soviet Art
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in November
October 2022
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level (from October 2022 for 10 weeks)
Hybrid Lecture: Dr David Lane on 100 Years Since the Founding of the USSR (joint SCRSS / Marx Memorial Library event)
Zoom Online Lecture: Dr Robert Leach on Sergei Tretyakov - Modernism and Theatre
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday in October
September 2022
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and four Tuesdays in September
August 2022
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and five Tuesdays in August
July 2022
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level (from July 2022 for 10 weeks)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and four Tuesdays in July
June 2022
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and three Tuesdays in June
May 2022
In-person Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
In-person Lecture: Dr David Lane on Russia: 30 Years of Transformation
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and five Tuesdays in May
April 2022
In-person Lecture: Dr Matthias Neumann on Peace and Friendship: Overcoming the Cold War in the Artek Pioneer Camp
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate Level (from April 2022 for 10 weeks)
Zoom Online Lecture: Colin Turbett on Soviets in Space
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and four Tuesdays in April
March 2022
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Tall Tales about Russian Etymologies
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and five Tuesdays in March
February 2022
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Navigating Russian Conversations - The Devices We Use to Manage Conversations
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - one Saturday and four Tuesdays in February
January 2022
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate Level (from January 2022 for 10 weeks)
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day, Act of Remembrance at the Soviet War Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - three Tuesdays in January
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2021
December 2021
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - two
Tuesdays in December
November 2021
Zoom Online Lecture: Dr Daniel Elphick on Formalistic
Freaks in Music: Socialist Realism, Shostakovich and Ilya Golovin
Event: Act of Remembrance, Remembrance Sunday,
Soviet War Memorial
Zoom Online Event: SCRSS Advanced Russian Language
Seminar - Contemporary Russian Literature, led by Dr Svetlana
Bukreeva, Associate Professor, Department of Philological Education,
Leningrad Regional Institute of Education Development, St Petersburg
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Intermediate Level (from November 2021 for 10 weeks)
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - five
Tuesdays in November
October 2021
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - four
Tuesdays in October
September 2021
Zoom Online Lecture: Cathy McAteer on Translating
Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Russian
Comes of Age
Zoom Online Lecture: Caroline Walton on Those
Who Survived the Siege of Leningrad
Event: SCRSS Library Opening for Members - three
Tuesdays in September
July 2021
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language
for Good Intermediate Level (from July 2021 for 10 weeks)
June 2021
Zoom Online Lecture: Colin Turbett on The Anglo-Soviet
Alliance - Comrades and Allies During WW2
Zoom Online Panel: Historical Memory and the
Fight against Fascism, Part III (joint SCRSS - Marx Memorial Library
event). Chaired by Jonathan White. Speakers from Russia, Spain
and Italy including Dr Vladimir Vasilik, Associate Professor,
Institute of History, St Petersburg State University, Russia;
and Dr Almudena Cros, President, Asociacion de Amigos de las Brigadas
Internacionales (Association of Friends of the International Brigades),
Spain.
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Russian
Slang: Or the Sociolinguistics of the Secret Languages of Russia
May 2021
Zoom Online Lecture: Jack Robertson on The Hammer
and the Anvil: Dispatches from the Frontline of the Russian Civil
War, 1918-1919
Zoom Online Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
April 2021
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language
for Good Intermediate Level (from April 2021 for 10 weeks)
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on The Riddle
of the Two Slavonic Alphabets
Zoom Online Event: SCRSS Advanced Russian Seminar:
Aspects of Linguistics (Day 2), led by Dr Svetlana Bukreeva, Associate
Professor, Department of Philological Education, Leningrad Regional
Institute of Education Development, St Petersburg
Zoom Online Event: SCRSS Advanced Russian Seminar:
Aspects of Linguistics (Day 1), led by Dr Svetlana Bukreeva, Associate
Professor, Department of Philological Education, Leningrad Regional
Institute of Education Development, St Petersburg
March 2021
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on What's
in a Name? More Than You Think!
February 2021
Zoom Online Lecture: Professor Jeremy Hicks
on The Victory Banner Over the Reichstag - Film, Document and
Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War Two
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Good Intermediate Level (from February 2021 for 10 weeks)
January 2021
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language
for Good Intermediate Level (continued from 2020 until January
2021)
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2020
Note: many planned events were cancelled during the year
during to the Covid-19 pandemic
November 2020
Zoom Online Lecture: Philip Wilkinson on Red
Star and Roundel - A Shared Century
Zoom Online Panel Discussion: Historical Memory
and the Fight Against Fascism, Part II (joint SCRSS / SWMT / Marx
Memorial Library / International Brigade Memorial Trust event)
Zoom Online Lecture: David Lane on Lenin's Ideas
on Revolution: Are they Relevant Today? (joint SCRSS / Marx Memorial
Library event)
October 2020
Zoom Online Lecture: Robert Stephenson on 'We
Are Building Capitalism! Moscow in Transition 1992-1997'
Zoom Online Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
(rescheduled from originally planned May 2020)
September 2020
Zoom Online Lecture: Bill Bowring on Russia
and the European Convention (or Court) of Human Rights
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for
Good Intermediate Level (Term 1 - until December 2020)
June 2020
Zoom Online Panel Discussion: Historical Memory
and the Fight Against Fascism, Part I (joint SCRSS / Marx Memorial
Library event)
April 2020
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language
for Good Intermediate Level (Term 3 - until June 2020)
March 2020
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
February 2020
Talk: Jessica Sutcliffe on Helen Muspratt: Photographing
the Soviet Union in 1937
Talk: Andrew Jameson on Why Russian is the Best
Language for Poetry
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
January 2020
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at the
Soviet War Memorial, London
Talk: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands - the Russia-China
Border
Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level (Term 2 - until March 2020)
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2019
December 2019
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
November 2019
Talk: Robert Chandler on Vasily Grossman, Lev
Ozerov and the World of Soviet Jewry
Event: Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War Memorial,
London
Event: Celebrating the Life of John Cunningham
(1943-2019) with a screening of Lenin: Pages from a Great Life
(1978),
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
October 2019
Talk: Simon Nicholls on The Notebooks of Alexander
Skryabin, 1872-1915
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
September 2019
Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level (Term 1 - until November 2019)
Talk: Pauline Fairclough on Do We Need Another
Shostakovich Biography?
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
August 2019
Event: SCRSS Thursday Library Opening for Members
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
July 2019
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
June 2019
Talk: Caroline Walton on 'My Cossack Family
- And Other Remarkable People in Russia and Ukraine'
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
May 2019
Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level (Term 3 - until July 2019)
Talk: Jane Rosen and Kimberley Reynolds on 'Reading
and Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960'
Event: SCRSS AGM
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial,
London
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
April 2019
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
March 2019
Talk: Christine Lindey on 'Art for All: British
Socially Committed Art from the 1930s to the Cold War'
Talk: Andrew Jameson on The Horrible History
of Russian! Part 2
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
February 2019
Talk: Alexandra Smirnova of the Science Museum
on 'The Last Tsar - Blood and Revolution' Exhibition
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
January 2019
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at the
Soviet War Memorial, London
Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level (Term 2 - until March 2019)
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2018
December 2018
Event: SCRSS Saturday Opening for Members
November 2018
Event: Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War
Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
Event: SCRSS Social Evening / Viewing of Exhibition
Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
October 2018
Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring on Russia's
Criminal Justice System - from Tsar Alexander II to President
Putin
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on The Horrible History
of Russian!
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
September 2018
Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate
Level (Term 1 - until December 2018)
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
August 2018
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
July 2018
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
June 2018
Lecture: Dr Kate Hudson on Russia and the New
Cold War
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
May 2018
Filmshow: Red October: Revolution in Russia
(Platform Films, 2018)
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Event: Victory Day Act of Remembrance at the
Soviet War Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
April 2018
Event: 10th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate Level (Term 3
until June 2018)
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
March 2018
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
and Exhibition Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution
February 2018
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
January 2018
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at the
Soviet War Memorial, London
Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate
Level (Term 2 - until March 2018)
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2017
December 2017
Event: SCRSS Saturday Opening for Members
November 2017
Event: Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War
Memorial, London
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on The October Revolution
in Russian Literature
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
Exhibition: Lenin: Leader of the Russian Revolution.
Venue: North Wall Gallery, Oxford. Included extensive photographic
materials from the SCRSS Library.
Conference: Russian Revolution Centenary: Marking
100 Years Since the October Revolution. Venue: Congress House,
TUC, London. Organised by the Russian Revolution Centenary Committee
(RRCC) representing a range of heritage, cultural and labour movement
organisations, including the SCRSS.
Social Event: Marking the Russian Revolution
Centenary. Included a short talk on centenary-related events in
St Petersburg by representatives of the St Petersburg Association
for International Co-operation, and the TUC Library's exhibition
'The Russian Revolution and its Impact on the Left in Britain
1917-1926'.
October 2017
Lecture: Mike Pentelow on Lenin in London
Exhibition: The Russian Revolution and its Impact
on the Left in Britain 1917-1926 (TUC Library exhibition)
Event: SCRSS Saturday Opening for Members
September 2017
Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate
Level (Term 1 - until December 2017)
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
July 2017
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
June 2017
Lecture: Professor Mary Davis on The Significance
of the Russian Revolution
Exhibition: The Impact of the Russian Revolution
on World War One (1917-22). Touring exhibition curated by Professor
Mary Davis
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on The Influence of the
October Revolution on the Russian Language
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
May 2017
Lecture: Christine Lindey on Art and the Russian
Revolution
Event: SCRSS AGM
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
April 2017
Event: 9th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
March 2017
Film: The End of St Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin,
1927)
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
February 2017
Lecture: Katya Rogatchevskaia on the British
Library's Exhibition Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
Event: SCRSS Saturday Library Opening for Members
January 2017
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day at the Soviet
War Memorial, London
Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate
Level (Term 2 - until March 2017)
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2016
December 2016
Event: SCRSS Saturday Opening for Members
November 2016
Event: SCRSS Saturday Opening for Members
Event: Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War Memorial
Lecture: Margaret Fleming-Markarian on The Hidden
Allegory of Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker'
October 2016
Event: SCRSS Saturday Opening for Members
Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate
Level (Term 1 - until December 2016)
Lecture: Jonathan Steele on Memories of 1991:
Twenty-Five Years On
Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring on The European
Union's Response to the Crisis in Ukraine
June 2016
Lecture: Robert Chandler on ‘Memories’
by Teffi
May 2016
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Lecture: Tom Sibley on The Soviet Union and the
Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939)
April 2016
Evening Class: Russian Language for Post-Beginners
(Term 3 - until June 2016)
Event: 8th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
March 2016
Lecture: Nicholas Deakin and Jean Turner on
Radiant Illusion? Middle-Class Recruits to Communism in the
1930s
February 2016
Lecture: Karen Hewitt on What’s Happening
in Russia? The Views and Values of Ordinary Russians
January 2016
Evening Class: Russian Language for Post-Beginners,
(Term 2 - until March 2016)
Lecture: David Lane on Prospects for Russia and
Eurasia in the World Economic System
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day at the Soviet War
Memorial
Event: Documentary Film Screening of 'Soviet
Sports Wars' and 'Secret Soviet Moon Mission' with Q&A
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2015
December 2015
Event: SCRSS Winter Party and Fundraiser
November 2015
Film: October 1917 - Ten Days That Shook the
World (Sergei M Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, 1928)
Event: Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War Memorial
Lecture: Dr Lidia Ader on How to Become a Genius?
The Case of Dmitri Shostakovich
Lecture: Christine Lindey on Representations
of Women in the Art of the Cold War c 1945 - c 1962
October 2015
Evening Course: Russian Language for Post-Beginners
(Term 1 - until December 2015)
Lecture: Doug Millard on Cosmonauts: Birth of
the Space Age
September 2015
Film: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei M Eisenstein
with Dmitri Vasilyev, 1938)
July 2015
Event: SCRSS Summer Open Day
Exhibition: Soviet War Artists 1941-45: Reproductions
of Drawings, Sketches and Linocuts from the SCRSS Art Library
(until December 2015)
Film: Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov,
1929)
Book Launch and Talk: Dr Farideh Heyat on Land
of Forty Tribes
May 2015
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
April 2015
Event: First Thursday Russian Language Discussion
Club
Film: Gagarin - First in Space (Pavel Parkhomenko, 2013)
March 2015
Event: First Thursday Russian Language Discussion
Club
Lecture: Michael Jones on After Hitler: The Last Days
of World War Two in Europe
February 2015
Event: First Thursday Russian Language Discussion
Club
January 2015
Exhibition: London-St Petersburg: City and People
Photo Exhibition (opened October 2014)
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day at the Soviet
War Memorial
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2014
December 2014
Event: SCRSS Party and Fundraiser
November 2014
Event: 3rd SCRSS Russian History Seminar
Event: Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War Memorial,
London
October 2014
Lecture: Dr Timothy Bowers on Alan Bush and
Nationalism in Music
Exhibition: London-St Petersburg: City and People
Photo Exhibition
Conference: The Role of Public Diplomacy in Fostering
Russian-British Relations, organised by the SCRSS and the St Petersburg
Association for International Cooperation
July 2014
Event: SCRSS 90th Anniversary Celebration
June 2014
Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring on Russia and
the European Convention on Human Rights - Following the UK's Example?
May 2014
Exhibition: The Inauguration of the Russian
Season, Prelude - Carriage Vanishing Point (Villa Design Group)
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Conference: British-Soviet Friendship and Cultural
Exchange - Promotion, Partnership and Propaganda, organised by
Dr Emily Lygo, University of Exeter
April 2014
Event: Presentation by Kazakh Writer Dulat Isabekov
of the English Translation of his book The Little Pearl
Event: Yuri's Night - Marking the Anniversary
of Yuri Gagarin's Spaceflight
Event: 7th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
March 2014
Lecture: Dr Pat Simpson on Tales from the 'Russian
Room' at Down House, Kent
February 2014
Lecture: John Riley on Alfred Schnittke in the
Cinema and Concert Hall
January 2014
Photo Exhibition: Soviet Times-Russian Times
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day at the Soviet War
Memorial
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2013
December 2013
Event: SCRSS Members' Open Day and 90th Anniversary
Launch Event
November 2013
Event: Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at the Soviet
War Memorial
Event: 2nd SCRSS Russian History Seminar
October 2013
Lecture: Caroline Walton on her book Smashed
in the USSR
September 2013
Film: Rasskazy (Short Stories, dir. Mikhail
Segal, 2012)
June 2013
Lecture: John Riley on Beyond the Rite's Riot
(2013 centenary of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring)
May 2013
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War
Memorial
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
April 2013
Lecture: David Lane on What Next for Russia?
Event: 6th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
March 2013
Exhibition: Soviet Modernist Art and Design
c 1917-91
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Working as a Volunteer
Lecturer in Russia - A Guide
Event: SCRSS Book and Souvenir Sale
Lecture: Dr Emily Lygo on Bringing Soviet Culture
to Britain: The SCR's Activities and Interests 1924-45
February 2013
Film: 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad
Film Show:
- Hurricanes to Murmansk (2011, Atoll Productions for the RAF
Russia Association with the support of the RAF Historical Society)
- Normandie-Niéman (dir. Jean Dréville, 1960, Mosfilm
Studios and Alkan Film, FrancoLondonFilms)
January 2013
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day at the Soviet
War Memorial
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2012
November 2012
Film: The Orator (dir. Yusup Razykov, 1998,
Uzbekfilm)
Event: Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at the Soviet
War Memorial
Event: SCRSS Russian History Seminar
October 2012
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Russian-English Translation
- Trickier Than You Thought?
September 2012
Film: Mirror (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974, Mosfilm,
USSR)
Event: A Commemoration of Professor James Riordan
(1936-2012)
June 2012
Event: Central Asian Film Day
- Film: You’re Not an Orphan (dir. Shukhrat
Abbasov, 1963, Uzbekfilm)
- Film: Aksuat (dir. Serik Aprymov, 1997, East
Cinemas Ltd, Kazakhstan)
May 2012
Lecture: John Riley on the Film Society
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial
March 2012
Lecture: Ralph Gibson on The Russian
Presidential Election 2012
February 2012
Exhibition: The Arts of Russian and Soviet Modernists
from the SCRSS Archives
January 2012
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day at the Soviet
War Memorial
Event: An Evening of Films by Aktan Abdykalykov,
Kyrgyzstan
- Film: A Dog was Running (1990, Kyrgyzfilm
Studios)
- Film: Beshkempir (1998, Kyrgyzstan / France)
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2011
December 2011
Illustrated Lecture: Christine Lindey on Russian
and Soviet Avant-Garde Art 1900-1935
November 2011
Lecture:Dr Michael Jones on Total War - From
Stalingrad to Berlin
Event: Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at the Soviet
War Memorial
October 2011
Lecture: John Riley on the Film Society 1925-1939
Lecture: Caroline Walton on The Besieged - Surviving
Catastrophe
September 2011
Film: The Brest Fortress (dir. Alexander Kott,
2010, Russia)
July 2011
Film: The Battle for Moscow, Part II: Typhoon
(dir. Yuri Ozerov, 1985, USSR)
June 2011
Film: The Battle for Moscow, Part I: Aggression
(dir. Yuri Ozerov, 1985, USSR)
May 2011
Lecture: Professor Geoffrey Roberts on Marshal
Zhukov
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Event: Victory Day at the Soviet War Memorial
April 2011
Exhibition and Launch Event: Yuri Gagarin -
First Man in Space
Event: 5th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
Event: Reception for Brest Fortress Museum Representatives
February 2011
Film: The Youth of Maxim (dir. Kozintsev and
Trauberg, 1935, USSR)
Talk: Dr R Abduvalieva on Chyngyz Aitmatov 1928-2008
January 2011
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day Act of Remembrance
at the Soviet War Memorial
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2010
December 2010
Special Event: 65th Anniversary of the Defeat
of Fascism in 1945
November 2010
Illustrated Lecture: Jane Rosen on Baba Yaga
in Brixton - The Children's Library at the SCRSS 1924-2010
Event: Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at the Soviet
War Memorial
October 2010
Illustrated Lecture: Christine Lindey on British
Responses to Soviet Art in the 1940s
September 2010
Film: The Rainbow (dir. Mark Donskoi, 1944,
USSR)
Lecture: Simon Nicholl on Skryabin - Silver Age,
Soviet Era, Present Day
July 2010
Film: The Immortal Garrison (dir. Z Agranenko,
1956, USSR)
June 2010
Film: The Young Guard: Part Two (dir. Sergei
Gerasimov, 1947, USSR)
Exhibiton: Brest Fortress - Materials from the
Brest Museum, Belarus. With launch lecture by Russell Porter
May 2010
Exhibiton: Russian Friends - Paintings by Gerry
Clarke
Event: Victory Day Celebrations at the Soviet
War Memorial, London
Film: The Young Guard: Part One (dir. Sergei
Gerasimov, 1947, USSR)
Event: SCRSS AGM
April 2010
Event: SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Travel on the Trans-Siberian
Railway
March 2010
Event: St Petersburg Student Group - Reception
February 2010
Illustrated Lecture: Layla Alexander-Garrett
on The Life and Work of Sergei Paradjanov
Film: We from Kronstadt (dir. Yefim Dzigan, 1936,
USSR)
January 2010
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day Act of Remembrance
at the Soviet War Memorial, London
Lecture: Dr Michael Jones on The German Retreat
from Moscow 1941-42 - The Story of Hitler's First Defeat
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2009
December 2009
Event: SCRSS Christmas Book Fair and Open Day
Lecture:Jim Riordan on Russian Folk Tales
November 2009
Film: Cavalier of the Gold Star (dir. Yuri Raizman,
1950, USSR)
Lecture: Kate Clark on Experiences of a Moscow
Correspondent in the 1980s
October 2009
Film:Journey through Fire (dir. Samsonov, USSR)
Lecture: John Riley on Stravinsky - The Comedian
September 2009
Film: The Bonus (dir. Sergei Mikaelian, 1975,
USSR)
July 2009
Illustrated Talk: SCRSS - The Early Years (1924-39)
May 2009
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Event: Victory Day Celebrations at the Soviet
War Memorial, London
April 2009
Exhibition: Inner Worlds / Outer Worlds - Paintings
by Christine Lindey
Event: SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
Exhibition: Mir Iskusstva - Reproductions from
the State Museum of Theatre & Music in St Petersburg
Event: Round Table Discussion - Russia Today,
chaired by Professor Evgeny Yurkov, Dean of the Department of
Philology of St Petersburg State University
March 2009
Illustrated Lecture: Clare Kitson on The Soviet
Animator Yuri Norstein
Illustrated Lecture: Charlotte Kasner on Diaghilev
and the Ballets Russes
February 2009
Film: Daughter-in-Law (dir. Hodjakuli and Hadjadurdy
Narliyev, 1972, USSR)
Lecture: Catherine Arsenieva-Marshall on Monumental
Sculpture of the Soviet Stalinist Era
January 2009
Film: Road to Life (dir. Nikolai Ekk, 1931,
USSR)
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2008
November 2008
Film: Cossacks Beyond the Danube (Ukrainian
State Opera and Ballet, dir. V. Lapoknysh, 1953, USSR)
Lecture: Keith Bennett on The Soviet Union's
Contribution to the Defeat of Japanese Militarism
October 2008
Lecture: Barbara Forrai on The Kamchatka to
Chukhotka Expedition
Film: Born Twice (dir. Arkady Sirenko, 1983,
USSR)
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Book Sale
September 2008
Film: Officers (dir. V. Rogovoi, USSR)
Lecture: Jim Riordan on Sport and the Oligarchs
June 2008
Lecture: Dr Roy Bivon on Russian Verbs of Motion
Film: The Flight That Became a Legend (Central
Documentary Film Studios, 1975, USSR)
May 2008
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
April 2008
Event: SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
March 2008
Film: The Fourth Year of the War (dir. G Nikolaiyenko,
1983, USSR)
February 2008
Illustrated Lecture: Christine Lindey on Aspects
of Post-War Art in Belarus
Film: October Days (dir. Sergei Vasilyev, 1958,
USSR)
January 2008
Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring on British-Russian
Relations and the Law: Can It Get Worse?
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2007
November 2007
Lecture: Jean Turner on The 90th Anniversary
of the Russian October Revolution: The Path to Democracy or Tyranny?
Film: The Vyborg Side (dir. Grigory Kozintsev
and Leonid Trauberg, 1937, USSR)
October 2007
Lecture: Dr Michael Jones on Stalingrad (based
on Dr Jones's book Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed, 2007)
September 2007
Film: Heart of Russia (dir. Vera Stroyeva, USSR)
June 2007
Lecture: Charlotte Kasner on The Ballet Spartacus
May 2007
Film: The Beginning of an Epic (USSR)
April 2007
Event: SCRSS Russian Language Seminar
Exhibition: Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) - from
the Nabokov Museum in St Petersburg
March 2007
Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Horses for Courses:
Solving Russian-English Translation Problems - A Systematic Approach
February 2007
Film: Generation of Conquerors (dir. Vera Stroyeva,
1936, USSR)
January 2007
Lecture: Dr Roy Bivon on Russian Verb Aspects
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2006
December 2006
Film: Carnival Night (dir. Eldar Ryazanov, 1956,
USSR)
November 2006
Lecture: Robert Chandler on Russian Literature
October 2006
Film: The Wife (dir. Yuri Raizman, 1955, USSR)
September 2006
Lecture: Christine Lindey on Wassily Kandinsky
May 2006
Lecture: Professor Leonid Seleznev on The Last
Empire: Russia's Relations with her Neighbours
Film: The Tsar's Bride (USSR)
April 2006
Film: A Mother's Loyalty (dir. Mark Donskoi,
USSR)
March 2006
Film: Along Lenin's Road (dir. V Dudarova, 1957,
USSR)
Lecture: Dr Roy Bivon on The Russian Verb -
How Languages Work
February 2006
Film: The Crucified Island (dir. Shota Munagadze,
1968, USSR)
January 2006
Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring on Trials of
Human Rights in Russia
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2005
December 2005
Film: The First Glove (dir. A Frolov, 1946,
USSR)
November 2005
Lecture: Jill Cunningham on Children's Literature
in Russia - Past and Present
Event: Remembrance Day ceremony at the Soviet
War Memorial, London
Lecture: Christine Lindey on Art in the Cold
War
October 2005
Film: The Bonus (dir. Sergei Mikaelian, 1975,
USSR)
September 2005
Film: My Daughter (dir. Viktor Zhilin, 1956,
USSR)
August 2005
Event: SCRSS Book Sale
July 2005
Film: Lenin's Paper 'The Spark' (USSR / Bulgaria)
June 2005
Lecture: Jane Rosen on Soviet Women at War
Film: Skanderbeg (dir. Sergei Yutkovich, 1953,
USSR)
May 2005
Event: VE Day 60th Anniversary ceremony at the
Soviet War Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS AGM
Film: Adventures in Bokhara (dir. Y Protozanov,
USSR)
April 2005
Film: On the Way to Berlin (dir. Mikhail Yershov,
1969, USSR)
March 2005
Lecture: Jean Turner, Hon Secretary of the SCRSS,
on The Huntly Carter Collection in the SCRSS Library
February 2005
Lecture: Pierre Mosonyi on Modest Mussorgsky
Film: Nikolai Roerikh (USSR)
January 2005
Film: The Lone White Sail (dir. V Logoshin,
1937, USSR)
Lecture: Leon Greenman on An Englishman in Auschwitz
(Soviet War Memorial lecture at the Imperial War Museum)
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at the
Soviet War Memorial, London
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2004
December 2004
Lecture: John Riley on Dmitri Shostakovich -
A Life in Film
November 2004
Film: Battleship Potemkin (dir. Eisenstein and
Aleksandrov, 1925, USSR)
Event: Remembrance Day ceremony at the
Soviet War Memorial, London. Also commemorated the 60th anniversary
of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi occupation
Lecture: Barbara Ellis on Folk Music of the Non-Russian
Republics of the Former USSR
Event: SCRSS Book Sale
October 2004
Film: Mussorgsky (dir. G Roshal, 1950, USSR)
September 2004
Lecture: Alan Spence on Garden Cities in Russia
and the Soviet Union
Film: Man with a Gun (dir. Sergei Yutkevich,
1938, USSR)
August 2004
Event: SCRSS Russian Book and Souvenir Sale
July 2004
Event: Wreath-laying at the Soviet War Memorial,
London, to commemorate Belarus National Liberation Day
June 2004
Film: Goal! Goal! Another Goal! (USSR)
May 2004
Event: Victory in Europe Day wreath-laying at
the Soviet War Memorial, London. Lecture on the Normandy landings
and film show on the Second Front, Imperial War Museum
Film: The Warmth of Your Hands (USSR)
April 2004
Event: SCRSS AGM
Film: Three Men and a Dog (USSR)
Film: Tanya's Dog Baghera (USSR)
March 2004
Lecture: John Riley on The Music of Prokofiev
Film: Heroes of Shipka (dir. S Vasiliev, 1954,
USSR)
February 2004
Lecture: Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of History
at University College Cork, on Stalin as a Wartime Leader
January 2004
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day wreath-laying
at the Soviet War Memorial, London
Film: Cavalier of the Golden Star (dir. Yuri
Raizman, 1950, USSR)
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2003
December 2003
Lecture: Vladimir Molchanov, First Secretary,
Russian Embassy in London, on Recent Developments in Russia and
the Significance of the December 2003 Duma Elections
November 2003
Lecture: Dr Kate Hudson on Political Developments
in Russia and Eastern Europe
Film: Inseparable Friends (dir. V Zhuravlev,
USSR)
October 2003
Lecture: Felicity Cave on The UK@SPb British
Programme for St Petersburg's 300th Anniversary
Film: Adventures of Artyomka (dir. A Apsolon,
USSR)
September 2003
Lecture: Armenian poet Vagahn Karapetyan on
Russian and Soviet Memorial Headstones, followed by poetry reading
Film: The Big Family (dir. I Heifits, 1954, USSR)
August 2003
Film: The Centre Forward (dir. Derevyansky and
Zemgano, 1946, USSR)
May 2003
Lecture: Professor Leonid Seleznev on The Leningrad
Blockade (VE Day lecture, Imperial War Museum)
Event: Victory Day wreath-laying at the Soviet
War Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS AGM
Film: The Funny Boy from Form B (USSR)
April 2003
Lecture: Barbara Ellis on Russian Folk Music
Film: Young Guard Part II (dir. Sergei Gerasimov,
USSR)
March 2003
Lecture: Ralph Gibson on Contemporary Russia
Film: Young Guard Part I (dir. Sergei Gerasimov,
1947, USSR)
February 2003
Lecture: Dr Dennis Ogden on Translating in Moscow
in the 1950s
Film: Member of the Government (dir. Alexander
Zarkhi, 1939, USSR)
January 2003
Lecture: Professor Jim Riordan on Soviet Sport
Film: Journey through Fire (dir. Samsonov, USSR)
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