The SCRSS organises a regular programme of lectures,
film shows, exhibitions, seminars and other events at its premises
in London. The Society is also involved in educational and commemorative
events associated with the Soviet War Memorial in London. Events
are open to both SCRSS members and non-members, unless otherwise
stated.
Venue and Tickets
In 2022 we plan a mix of online and in-person
events, bookable via Eventbrite. Standard ticket prices for talks
are £3.00 (SCRSS members) and £5.00 (non-members).
All other events or classes are priced as indicated. We continue
our library openings for members every Tuesday, as well as the
first Saturday of the month from February 2022.
2022 Events Diary
January 2022
Tuesday 11 January 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 18 January 2022, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 25 January 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Thursday 27 January 2022, 11.00
Holocaust Memorial Day, Act of Remembrance at the Soviet War Memorial,
London
Holocaust Memorial Day marks the date of the liberation of the
Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps by the Soviet
Red Army on 27 January 1945. The Soviet War Memorial Trust (SWMT)
is organising a joint ceremony in co-operation with Southwark
Council. Participants should gather in front of the main entrance
to the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ by 10.45.
From there they will process to the nearby Memorial. Those interested
are welcome to come along on the day. However, if you intend to
lay a wreath, or to bring the standard of your organisation, please
email the SWMT on sovietwarmemorialtrust@gmail.com
as soon as possible and before the day. Wreaths may be laid at
either the Soviet War Memorial or Southwark Council's Holocaust
Memorial Tree (adjacent to the Soviet War Memorial) or both. The
ceremony is expected to last roughly 30 minutes. Please note that
for this ceremony there will be no temporary seating at the Memorial.
Given the numbers visiting the Imperial War Museum (IWM) on this
day, we advise using public transport if at all possible. Following
the ceremony, participants may wish to visit the new Holocaust
galleries inside the IWM.
The Soviet War Memorial
was unveiled in 1999 on the initiative of the SCRSS and the Society
has been supporting the work of the SWMT since its foundation.
The SWMT organises three main ceremonies at the Memorial each
year to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (January); Victory Day (9
May) and Remembrance Sunday (November).
From Thursday 27 January 2022 for
10 weeks, 18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. The group
is friendly, quite informal and strictly non-competitive. One
hour conversation practice, one hour reading (preparation advised).
The current book is 'Shapka' by Vladimir Voinovich (available
online). Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only).
Current availability for 1-2 new members to join the class - for
more information, email Christine Barnard direct on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
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February 2022
Tuesday 1 February 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Saturday 5 February 2022, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 8 February 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 15 February 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 15 February 2022, 19.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Navigating Russian
Conversations - The Devices We Use to Manage Conversations
Andrew Jameson continues his series of online talks on the Russian
language. We don't notice the devices we use to manage our own
English conversations, we use them automatically. But they are
there, in English and in Russian. Andrew will look at ways of
communicating more effectively in Russian, using the devices that
Russians use, rather than using sentences awkwardly created on
English models. This will include hesitation phenomena, filler
sequences, interrupting, enquiring, self-correcting and much more.
If time, Andrew will cover some of the common contractions used
in everyday speech. A handout will be available to attendees,
so that you don't lose this most important knowledge.
Booking: The talk will be held using the Zoom
online conferencing tool. Please book in advance via Eventbrite.
Normal ticket prices apply. To view the event online, you'll also need to have set up a free
account with Eventbrite, using the same email address you use
to book the event. If you don't have an Eventbrite account yet,
you can set it up before or after booking this event. Once booked,
you'll receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite about the
events, and reminders with the link at two days, two hours and
ten minutes before the event starts.
After studying Russian and radio technology at the Joint Service
Language School, Andrew Jameson first worked in signals intelligence
in Berlin. After Oxford, he taught Russian at Essex University,
while also working as a sound recordist in Russia for the Nuffield-funded
Russian Language Project, collecting samples of different styles
of Russian and creating a sound archive of Russian recordings.
He later taught Russian at Portsmouth Polytechnic and Lancaster
University. Now retired, he works as a professional translator
and gives regular talks on the history of the Russian language
for the SCRSS.
Tuesday 22 February 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card. Other visitors by appointment only.
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March 2022
Tuesday 1 March 2022, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Saturday 5 March 2022, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 8 March 2022, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 15 March 2022, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 15 March 2022, 19.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew Jameson on Tall Tales about Russian
Etymologies
Andrew Jameson continues his series of online talks on the Russian
Language. Many and mysterious are the ways in which languages
allocate or create names. Andrew has given one session on names
already - about the names of people. This time Andrew will look
at a selection of common names of everyday things, some living
and some not. You'll be very surprised at the adventures words
get up to. They come from strange places, they swap around and
eventually settle down, like, for example an elephant becoming
a camel. Seriously?
Booking: via Eventbrite.
Normal ticket prices apply. To view the event online,
you'll also need to have set up a free account with Eventbrite,
using the same email address you use to book the event. If you
don't have an Eventbrite account yet, you can set it up before
or after booking this event. Once booked, you'll receive a confirmation
email from Eventbrite about the events, and reminders with the
link at two days, two hours and ten minutes before the event starts.
After studying Russian and radio technology at the Joint Service
Language School, Andrew Jameson first worked in signals intelligence
in Berlin. After Oxford, he taught Russian at Essex University,
while also working as a sound recordist in Russia for the Nuffield-funded
Russian Language Project, collecting samples of different styles
of Russian and creating a sound archive of Russian recordings.
He later taught Russian at Portsmouth Polytechnic and Lancaster
University. Now retired, he works as a professional translator
and gives regular talks on the history of the Russian language
for the SCRSS.
Tuesday 22 March 2022, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 29 March 2022, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
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April 2022
Saturday 2 April 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 5 April 2022, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 12 April 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 12 April 2022, 19.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Colin Turbett on Soviets in Space
Author Colin Turbett talks about his new book Soviets in
Space: The People of the USSR and the Race to the Moon, published
by Pen & Sword in November 2021. The book describes the period
in the 1950s and 1960s when the USSR was leading the space race.
This was a time when it really seemed that Soviet achievements
were showing the way to new worlds - literally and metaphorically.
Soviets in Space is not a technical history, but a social
one. It offers background, an insight into the lives of Soviet
people in that era, and stories about the cosmonauts. As well
as detailing the efforts to take socialism into space, one chapter
discusses the unique attempts to build heaven on earth through
the toil of ordinary citizens - the Virgin Lands Campaign of the
1950s and the Baikal-Amur Railway project of the 1970s.
Booking: via Eventbrite.
Normal ticket prices apply. To view the event online,
you'll also need to have set up a free account with Eventbrite,
using the same email address you use to book the event. If you
don't have an Eventbrite account yet, you can set it up before
or after booking this event. Once booked, you'll receive a confirmation
email from Eventbrite about the events, and reminders with the
link at two days, two hours and ten minutes before the event starts.
Colin Turbett is a social work writer and campaigner, based in
Scotland, who has long been fascinated by the USSR's social history.
He is the author of Red Star at War: Victory at All Cost (2020)
and The Anglo-Soviet Alliance: Comrades & Allies During
WW2 (2021), both published by Pen & Sword Books.
Tuesday 19 April 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
From Thursday 21 April 2022 for
10 weeks, 18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Intermediate Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. The group
is friendly, quite informal and strictly non-competitive. One
hour conversation practice, one hour reading (preparation advised).
The current book is 'Shapka' by Vladimir Voinovich (available
online). Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only).
Current availability for 1-2 new members to join the class - for
more information, email Christine Barnard direct on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Tuesday 26 April 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 26 April 2022, 19.00
Lecture: Matthias Neumann on Peace and Friendship: Overcoming
the Cold War in the Artek Pioneer Camp
NB: This event takes place in person at the SCRSS centre
in Brixton.
The famous Pioneer camp 'Artek' was used by the Soviet Union
to showcase socialism to upcoming generations. It was an iconic
space where each summer up to 5,000 children from over 60 nations
met to promote transnational cooperation and Soviet-led world
peace. The talk reconstructs the experience of American children
who visited the famous Soviet Pioneer camp 'Artek'. It examines
how the participants' encounters challenged and shaped perceptions
of East and West, and how their action fed into the upsurgence
of citizen diplomacy that played a crucial role in ending the
Cold War.
Booking: Please book in advance via Eventbrite.
Normal ticket prices apply.
Matthias Neumann is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University
of East Anglia, UK. He has published widely on the history of
childhood and youth in revolutionary Russia, including a monograph
on The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the
Soviet Union, 1917-1932 (Routledge 2011). His current research
examines exchange programmes that enabled American children to
visit the Soviet Union and the role of children in citizen diplomacy
during the Cold War. The manuscript entitled American Peace
Child: Bridging the Cold War Divide in a Soviet Youth Camp
is under contract with University of Toronto Press.
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May 2022
Tuesday 3 May 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Saturday 7 May 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 10 May 2022, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Wednesday 11 May 2022, 19:00
Lecture: Dr David Lane on Russia: 30 Years of Transformation
NB: This event takes place in person at the SCRSS centre
in Brixton.
The talk will review the progress of transition in Russia over
the past thirty years and pose the question of what might follow.
The unintended consequences of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika
led, in 1992, to the dismemberment of the USSR into fifteen independent
states. Concurrently, communist ideology was renounced and Soviet
institutions were dismantled. The new leadership in the Russian
Federation under Boris Yeltsin had choices between ways to make
the transition to a post-communist political and economic order.
What ensued was 'chaotic capitalism' and a failed state. International
politics have played a major role in defining the course and nature
of the transformation. Consequently, President Putin has instituted
a form of 'electoral collectivist authoritarianism'. While Gorbachev
and Yeltsin were positively regarded by the Western powers, Putin's
policies have led to confrontation and to a new Cold War. Dr Lane
concludes the talk by outlining three possible future scenarios.
Booking: Book in advance via Eventbrite or tickets available on the door.
Normal ticket prices apply.
Dr David Lane was educated at Birmingham and Oxford Universities.
Currently, he is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and
an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
He is a also a Vice-President of the SCRSS. He has written extensively
on the USSR and post-socialism, Marxism and socialism, industrial
societies and the world economy, elites and classes. Publications
include: Changing Regional Alliances for China and the West
(With G. Zhu) (2018); The Eurasian Project in Global
Perspective (2016); (with V. Samokhvalov) The Eurasian
Project and Europe (2015); Elites and Identity in the
Transformation of State Socialism (2014); The Capitalist
Transformation of State Socialism (2014). Recent articles
have been published in Critical Sociology, The Third
World Quarterly, International Critical Thought and
Mir Rossii.
Tuesday 17 May 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Saturday 21 May 2022, 11.00
Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
The event takes place in person at the SCRSS centre. SCRSS
members only.
Saturday 21 May 2022, 14.00
Lecture: Christine Lindey on Representation of Workers in
Soviet Art
CANCELLED. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Tuesday 24 May 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 31 May 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
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June 2022
Saturday 4 June 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 7 June 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 14 June 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 21 June 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
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July 2022
Saturday 2 July 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 12 July 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 19 July 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
Tuesday 26 July 2022, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors strictly
by appointment only. Access the library collections and borrow
books from the Literature and Quick Loan sections. Surplus book
stock is also usually available for a small donation. Members
may attend without prior notification - please bring your membership
card.
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August 2022
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September 2022
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October 2022
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November 2022
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December 2022
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