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. The opinions expressed in lectures are those of the individual
speakers and not necessarily those of the SCRSS.
Venue and Tickets
Standard ticket prices for talks are £3.00 (SCRSS members)
and £5.00 (non-members). All other events or classes are
priced as indicated. Our library openings are normally every first
Saturday of the month, but please check the calendar below.
2024 Events Diary
January 2024
Please note: there is no Saturday library
opening in January 2024.
From Thursday 25 January 2024
- 29 February 2024, 18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. Note:
this is the remaining 6 weeks of the term that started on 30 November
2023, following the Christmas / New Year break. The group
is friendly, informal and strictly non-competitive. One hour free
conversation, one hour reading, with a short break in-between.
The group will read a variety of short stories or short extracts
from longer books, with suggestions welcome. The current text
is Tyotya dyadi Fyodora. There is availability for new
members to join the class - for more information or to request
a free one-session trial, email Christine Barnard direct on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only). Why not become
an SCRSS member to join this enjoyable
class - rates are competitive.
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February 2024
Saturday 3 February 2024, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors 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. Tea and coffee available.
Members - please bring your membership card.
Tuesday 6 February 2024, 19.00
- 20.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Professor Bill Bowring on Lenin, Self-Determination
of Nations and the 1924 Constitution of the USSR
First talk in our '1920s USSR' series for
spring 2024, reflecting the decade in which the Society was founded.
Lenin had campaigned from before the outbreak of the First World
War for the destruction of the Tsarist Empire and for the principle
of the right of nations to self-determination. This principle
was the central core of the first constitutions of Soviet Russia
and of the USSR. Lenin was uncompromising on the issue of a federation
of Soviet national republics and the right to secession. This
culminated in the Constitution of the USSR, approved on 31 January
1924, which stated in the opening Declaration: "... this
Union is a free federation of peoples equal in rights... the right
to freely withdraw from the Union is assured to each Republic."
Lenin's principled insistence on the right of nations to self-determination
remains highly controversial in Russia and has had a continuing
impact on the motivation of President Vladimir Putin. For many
years Putin has raged against Lenin - as a German agent who destroyed
the Russian Empire for money, and as an enemy of Russia who maliciously
planted an 'atomic bomb' under the USSR with the federative Constitution
of 1924 and created a fictitious state, Ukraine, to be an enemy
of Russia. This appears to have been one of his prime considerations
in his decision to invade Ukraine, as he explained in detail in
his speech of 21 February 2022.
Booking: via Eventbrite
(booking closes on 6 February 2024 at 16.00). Normal ticket
prices apply. Shortly after the event, a link
to the online recording of this talk will be sent to all those
who book (available for up to 30 days).
Bill Bowring has taught at Birkbeck College, University of
London, since 2006; he is a Barrister, taking cases to the Strasbourg
Court; and is a fluent Russian speaker, with many publications
in Russian and about Russia, including 'Law, Rights and Ideology
in Russia: Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power' (2013).He
was a regular visitor to Russia up until the start of the Covid
pandemic in February 2020. He was Chair of the SCRSS from 1989
to 1997, and has been President since 19 May 2007. In 1991, after
the collapse of the USSR, he proposed the re-naming of the SCR
(Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR) to the SCRSS (Society
for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies).
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March 2024
Saturday 2 March 2024, 09.30 -
10.45
Zoom Online Lecture in Russian: Associate Professor Nataliya Semenova
on The Nostalgia Trend in Contemporary Russian Literature
/ Nostal'gicheskaya tendentsiya v sovremennoi russkoi literature
Free talk in Russian for SCRSS members only.
Associate Professor Nataliya Semenova discusses the nostalgia
trend in contemporary Russian literature, live from St Petersburg.
Full details available on Eventbrite (see link below)
Booking: now open on Eventbrite (booking
closes on Friday 1 March 2024 at 17.00). Within 48 hours after
the event, a link to the online recording of this talk will be
sent to all members who book (available for up to 30 days).
Saturday 2 March
2024, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors 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. Tea and coffee available.
Members may attend without prior notification - please bring your
membership card.
From Thursday 7 March 2024
for 10 weeks, 18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. The group
is friendly, informal and strictly non-competitive. One hour free
conversation, one hour reading, with a short break in between.
The group reads a variety of short stories or short extracts from
longer books, with suggestions welcome. The current text is Chekhov's
Dama s sobachkoi (Lady with a Lapdog). There is currently
availability for new members to join the class. For more information
or to request a free one-session trial, email Christine Barnard
direct on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only). Why not
become an SCRSS member to join this
enjoyable class?
Wednesday 20 March 2024, 19.00
- 20.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Andrew George on Andrei Platonov's 'Chevengur'
as a Marxist Novel
Second talk in our '1920s USSR' series for
spring 2024, reflecting the decade in which the Society was founded.
Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) was a Soviet Russian writer who is
now becoming widely recognised in the West. His 1928 novel Chevengur
has recently been re-published in a new English translation by
Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. Chevengur is variously
considered to be a dystopian satire or a revolutionary novel on
the idea of communism, while its author has been portrayed as
both an ardent opponent of Soviet socialism and a loyal Soviet
revolutionary.
In this talk Andrew George discusses how Platonov, his life, and
his work, in particular Chevengur, relate to Marxism
in their historical, cultural and political contexts. He contends
that Platonov was a complex Bolshevik thinker living through complex
times (including the Civil War, New Economic Policy and Five Year
Plans). Platonov was involved in the Russian Revolution not only
as a writer, but also as an engineer working on electrification,
irrigation and land reclamation projects in Russia and Central
Asia. The talk will include the publication and translation history
of Chevengur in Russian and English, in the USSR and
abroad.
Booking: via Eventbrite
(booking closes on 20 March 2024 at 16.00). Normal ticket
prices apply. Shortly after the event, a link
to the online recording of this talk will be sent to all those
who book (available for up to 30 days).
Andrew George took his first degree in Russian at Queen Mary
University of London. He completed his MA in Russian and East
European Literature and Culture at University College London on
'The Revolutionary Marxist Subject of Platonov's Chevengur'. His
research interests include socialist and communist culture, history,
philosophy, politics and society.
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April 2024
Saturday 6 April 2024, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors 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. Tea and coffee available.
Members may attend without prior notification - please bring your
membership card.
Tuesday 16 April 2024, 18.30
- 19.30
Zoom Online Lecture in Russian for Members Only: Associate Professor
Nataliya Semenova on 'Moscow Literature' in Contemporary Russian
Culture / 'Moskovsky tekst' v sovremennoi russkoi kul'ture
Free talk in Russian for SCRSS members only.
Following her successful Zoom talk for the SCRSS in March 2024,
Associate Professor Nataliya Semenova returns to discuss the phenomenon
of 'Moscow literature' - part of the wider trend for mapping space
already seen in 'St Petersburg literature' and others. She will
focus on a number of aspects of 21st-century works - from memoir
literature by V. Aksenov and A. Nilin, to documentary reconstructions
and utopian manifestations of the contemporary city in the novels
of S. Belyakov and D. Danilov. Full details in Russian on Eventbrite,
including Nataliya Semenova's academic credentials. Live from
St Petersburg.
Booking: via Eventbrite
(booking closes at 15.30 on Tuesday 16 April 2024). Within 48
hours after the event, a link to the online recording of this
talk will be sent to all members who book (available for up to
30 days).
Wednesday 24 April 2024, 19.00
- 20.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Professor Jeremy Hicks on Oedipal and
Incendiary: Revisiting Pudovkin's Film Adaptation of Gorky's Mother
(1926)
Third talk in our '1920s USSR' series for
spring 2024, reflecting the decade in which the Society was founded.
Vsevolod Pudovkin's The Mother (1926) boldly reworked
Gorky's 1908 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. It
was perhaps the provocative mix that led the film to be more widely
censored on its international release even than Battleship
Potemkin. This talk explores the adaptation and the film's
reception, especially in the UK.
Booking: via Eventbrite
(booking closes on 24 April 2024 at 16.00). Normal ticket
prices apply. Shortly after the event, a link
to the online recording of this talk will be sent to all those
who book (available for up to 30 days).
Jeremy Hicks is Professor of Russian Culture and Film at Queen
Mary University of London where he teaches courses on Russian
film history and literature. He is the author of four books and
many articles on Russian and Soviet history, film, especially
documentary, literature and journalism. His publications include:
'Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film' (London and New York,
2007) and 'First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the
Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46' (Pittsburgh, 2012), which won the
2013 ASEEES Wayne Vucinich Prize "for the most important
contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in
any discipline of the humanities or social sciences". His
most recent book is: 'The Victory Banner over the Reichstag: Film,
Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War
Two' (Pittsburgh 2020). He is currently researching the relationship
between film and the international famine relief campaign to Soviet
Russia and Ukraine in 1921, and he frequently reviews and writes
about contemporary documentary in the former Soviet countries.
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May 2024
Saturday 4 May 2024, 11.00 - 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors 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. Tea and coffee available.
Members may attend without prior notification - please bring your
membership card.
From Thursday 16 May 2024 until Thursday 25 July 2024,
18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. One week break on 10 July. The group
is friendly, informal and strictly non-competitive. One hour free
conversation, one hour reading, with a short break in between.
The group reads a variety of short stories or short extracts from
longer books, with suggestions welcome. The class is just finishing Pushkin's
Pikovaya dama (Queen of Spades), before returning to Dyadya Fedor (Uncle Fyodor). There is currently
availability for new members to join the class. For more information
or to request a free one-session trial, email Christine Barnard
direct on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only). Why not
become an SCRSS member to join this
enjoyable class?
Saturday 18 May 2024, 11.00 - 13.00
In-person Event: SCRSS Annual General Meeting
Held at the SCRSS office. SCRSS members only.
Note: the talk by SCRSS Trustee and art historian
Christine Lindey at 14.00 (see below) is free to members who attend
the AGM.
Saturday 18 May 2024, 14.00 - 15.00
In-person Lecture: Christine Lindey on Alexander Deineka (1899-1969),
People’s Artist of the USSR
Fourth talk in our '1920s USSR' series for
spring 2024, reflecting the decade in which the Society was founded.
In-person illustrated talk held at the SCRSS office.
Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka (1899-1969) was just eighteen
and studying in his native Kursk when the Bolshevik Revolution
began in 1917. Soon after he was at Moscow's now celebrated VKhUTEMAS
(Higher Art and Technical Workshops) where he honed his Marxist
aspiration to create a new Soviet art.
In 1922 he co-founded the Association of Artists for Revolutionary
Russia (AARA). Intending to create a new heritage for the new
worker state, these artists imparted clear meanings in accessible
realist styles without being narrowly academic.
Deineka's Defence of Petrograd (1928) sought a compromise.
It celebrates the workers' foundation of the Soviet state in a
style that moderately absorbs Cubism and Expressionism while retaining
clear legibility to express the new Soviet reality. Most of his
subjects celebrated factory workers, miners, modernity, youth
and aspiration as expressed by flight and sport - with football,
the quintessential male working-class sport, claiming a special
place.
Deineka ruffled many an academician's feathers yet he was eventually
honoured as a Hero of Socialist Labour, People's Artist of the
USSR, a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts and a Lenin Prize
winner.
Booking: Tickets available on the door. Free
to SCRSS members who attend the preceding Annual General Meeting
at 11.00. Otherwise normal ticket prices apply.
Christine Lindey is an art historian with a special interest
in Soviet and Socialist art. She was formerly an Associate Lecturer
in art history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and
at the University of the Arts, London. She is the author of five
books, including her latest 'Art for All: British Socially Committed
Art from the 1930s to the Cold War' (2018) and her influential
'Art in the Cold War: From Vladivostock to Kalamazoo' (1990),
which pioneered the comparative study of Soviet and Western Art.
Now retired from teaching, she continues to write regular art
reviews for the Morning Star newspaper, as well as articles and
book reviews on Russian and Soviet art for the SCRSS Digest.
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June 2024
Saturday 1 June 2024, 11.00 -
16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Opening
Library opening for SCRSS members - other visitors 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. Tea and coffee available.
Members may attend without prior notification - please bring your
membership card.
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July 2024
Saturday 6 July 2024, 14.30 -
18.00
In-person Event: SCRSS Centenary Celebration 1924-2024
for Members
Our Centenary Celebration for SCRSS members. The event programme
includes the opening of a new exhibition A Centenary History
of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects with exhibits (photos, publications,
rare artefacts) from the Society's archives displayed on three
floors of our building and covering themes such as music, space
/ science, theatre, the Soviet War Memorial, the 1920s, etc. There
will be formal speeches, the book launch and author signing of
our new history An Unpopular Cause by Jane Rosen, a formal
toast to the Society and the cutting of a centenary cake. Doors
open at 14.00 with the buffet and drinks available from 14.30.
SCRSS members only. Members, if attending, please RSVP
to your invitation by 28 June.
Note: the exhibition A Centenary History
of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects will be open to the public from
the early autumn at dates to be confirmed in due course.
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August 2024
From Thursday 1 August 2024 until
Thursday 3 October 2024, 18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. The group
is friendly, informal and strictly non-competitive. One hour free
conversation, one hour reading, with a short break in between.
The group reads a variety of short stories or short extracts from
longer books, with suggestions welcome. There is currently availability
for new members to join the class. For more information or to
request a free one-session trial, email Christine Barnard direct
on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only). Why not
become an SCRSS member to join this
enjoyable class?
Saturday 3 August 2024, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Centenary Exhibition
Library opening for SCRSS members only
on this date (please bring your membership card). Access
the library collections (some rooms are restricted due to the
exhibition) and borrow books from the Literature and Quick Loan
sections. View our new exhibition A Centenary History of the
SCRSS in 100+ Objects which spans three floors of the building.
Tea and coffee available.
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September 2024
Saturday 7 September 2024, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Centenary Exhibition
Library opening for SCRSS members (please bring your membership
card) and the public (non-members please make an advance appointment
by email). Access the library collections (some rooms are
restricted due to the exhibition) and borrow books from the Literature
and Quick Loan sections (members only). View our new exhibition
A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects which
spans three floors of the building. Tea and coffee available.
Wednesday 25 September 2024, 19.00
- 20.00
Zoom Online Talk: Assiya Issemberdiyeva on Imagining Central
Asia on Film: The Soviet Folklorisation of Cultural Identity
The focus of this talk is wartime Soviet cinema, based on the
examples of Son of Tajikistan (1942), Adventures
in Bukhara (1943), and Kazakh Film Concert (1942).
Assiya Issemberdiyeva explores the folklorisation of Soviet Central
Asian nationalities, examining two perspectives. Firstly, their
portrayal through national attire, folk songs, and dances on screen,
pivotal in visually distinguishing these peoples. Secondly, the
Sovietisation of Central Asian folklore through cinematic representation.
This folklorisation contrasts with the portrayal of Russians as
'the first among equals' - a 'historiphiable' nation versus 'folklorisable'
others. Amidst the wartime glorification of Russian military history,
Central Asians were driven to find inspiration in folkloric figures,
due to Soviet restrictions on recognising local historical figures.
In her discussion, Assiya Issemberdiyeva situates the afore-mentioned
films within the broader framework of Soviet nation-building efforts
and the Sovietisation process in Central Asia.
Booking: via Eventbrite.
Booking closes at 16.00 on the day of the event. After the event,
a link to the online recording of this talk will be sent to all
those who book (available for up to 30 days). Normal ticket
prices apply.
Assiya Issemberdiyeva holds a Collaborative Doctoral Award
with Queen Mary University of London and the SCRSS, funded by
the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Her PhD thesis explores
the representation of Central Asia in wartime Soviet cinema. Assiya
is a member of the Association of Kazakhstani Film Critics. She
has contributed to Apparatus, KinoKultura, and The Calvert Journal,
as well as edited volumes, including 'Gender and Kazakh Society'
(Almaty, 2022) and 'Kazakh Cinema: Cultural Matrix and Trends'
(Almaty, 2023).
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October 2024
Saturday 5 October 2024, 11.00
- 16.00
Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Centenary Exhibition
Library opening for SCRSS members (please bring your membership
card) and the public (non-members please make an advance appointment
by email). Access the library collections (some rooms are
restricted due to the exhibition) and borrow books from the Literature
and Quick Loan sections (members only). View our new exhibition
A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects which
spans three floors of the building. Tea and coffee available.
Saturday 26 October 2024, 14.00
- 15.00
Zoom Online Lecture for SCRSS Members Only: Dr Olga Arkhipova
on The State Hermitage Museum
Free talk in English for SCRSS members only,
live from St Petersburg.
The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, is one of
the world's largest encyclopaedic art museums. It was started
by Catherine the Great in 1764 and initially housed in a small
pavilion by the side of the Winter Palace. Today, the Hermitage's
collections number over 3 million items, and are stored and displayed
to the public in eleven different buildings in St Petersburg.
The museum also has five branches in other cities of the Russian
Federation. In her illustrated lecture in English, Dr Arkhipova
will explore the museum's past and present.
Booking: via Eventbrite
Booking closes at 18.00 on Friday 25 October 2024. Within 48
hours after the event, a link to the online recording of this
talk will be sent to all members who book (available for up to
30 days).
Dr Olga Arkhipova is Head of the Tourism and Events Department
of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
This talk is organised in partnership with the St Petersburg Association
for International Co-operation, a non-governmental organisation.
Dr Arkhipova is a Board member of the Association.
Tuesday 29 October 2024, 17.00 -
20.00
Evening Exhibition Viewing: A Centenary History of the SCRSS in
100+ Objects
Free entry to the public at the SCRSS centre,
London. As the Society celebrates its centenary in 2024, view
our temporary exhibition A Centenary History of the SCRSS
in 100+ Objects. Exhibits highlight the Society's activities
to support cultural exchanges and contacts with the USSR, including
photographs, publications, scultures and rare artefacts from the
Society's archives, and are displayed on three floors of our building.
The exhibition is grouped by themes by period and cultural areas
such as music, space, science, theatre and more.
From Thursday 31 October 2024 until
Thursday 19 December 2024, 18.00 - 20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian Language for Good Intermediate
Level
Rolling 10-week Zoom evening class, taught by Christine Barnard,
former lecturer in Russian at Westminster University. The group
is friendly, informal and strictly non-competitive. One hour free
conversation, one hour reading, with a short break in between.
The group reads a variety of short stories or short extracts from
longer books, with suggestions welcome. The current book is Sadovnik
iz Ochakova by Andrei Kurkov. There is availability for new
members to join the class - for more information or to request
a free one-session trial, email Christine Barnard direct on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Fee for 10 weeks: £40.00 (SCRSS members only). Why not
become an SCRSS member to join this
enjoyable class?
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November 2024
Saturday 2 November 2024, 11.00
- 13.30
Event: SCRSS Library Opening and Centenary Exhibition
Library opening for SCRSS members (please bring your membership
card) and the public (non-members please make an advance appointment
by email). Access the library collections (some rooms are
restricted due to the exhibition) and borrow books from the Literature
and Quick Loan sections (members only). View our new exhibition
A Centenary History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects. Tea
and coffee available. Please note: visitors until
13.30 only, as a
ticketed book event follows at 14.00 (see below).
Saturday 2 November 2024, 14.00
- 16.00
In-person Book Event: Jane Rosen on 'An Unpopular Cause: A
Centenary History of the Society for Cultural Relations with the
USSR 1924-2024'
Joint SCRSS-Marx Memorial Library book event at the SCRSS
centre with a talk, booksigning, glass of fizz and the opportunity
to view the exhibition A Centenary History of the SCRSS in
100+ Objects before it closes in December.
Jane Rosen is an SCRSS Trustee and the author of the Society's
new history, published in July 2024. An Unpopular Cause: A
Centenary History of the Society for Cultural Relations with the
USSR 1924-2024 is a highly readable illustrated history of
the work the Society has carried out over the past 100 years,
covering its important yet underrated role in the field of British-Soviet
relations. Founded seven years after the October Russian Revolution,
the SCR was formed by a group of like-minded intellectuals across
the arts, humanities and sciences who were interested in the social
developments taking place in this new country, the USSR. The book
follows the history of the Society from the 1920s as diplomatic
relations were established, dissolved and then reformed; its important
work during the Second World War; the difficulties it faced during
the Cold War and beyond; and, finally, how it adapted to the break-up
of the Soviet Union.
In her short talk, Jane Rosen will outline the
challenges, highlights and connections made during her five years
of researching and seven months of writing An Unpopular Cause.
As a librarian, historian and independent researcher with an interest
in the Soviet Union, who was SCR Librarian in the 1980s-90s and
is now SCRSS Honorary Archivist, she recognised the importance
of the Society's unique Archive to the study of Anglo-Soviet cultural
relations. Not only as a resource on the British attitude to the
Cold War, British spying, the role of NGOs and attitudes to the
USSR in wartime, but also on the network of progressive individuals
in the Society (including such names as Paul Robeson) who helped
promote knowledge of and exchanges with the Soviet Union in the
fields of film, education, science, music, chess, literature,
law and more. Previous articles and books on the SCR published
externally have been written by those who grew up during the Cold
War, or had the Cold War perspective central to their research.
Jane's book addresses the Society's history from a different angle
- from within the organisation and with a supportive,
but not uncritical, view of its purpose and successes.
The talk will be followed by a booksigning session
with a glass of fizz (non-alcoholic refreshments also available).
Book purchases @ £15 can be made by debit / credit card
or cash. The Society's new exhibition A Centenary
History of the SCRSS in 100+ Objects with photographs, publications
and rare artefacts from the Society's archives can also be viewed
on three floors of the building.
Booking: either book in advance via Eventbrite
(online booking closes at 11.00 on the day of the event) or tickets
available on the door. Doors open 13.30. Normal ticket prices
apply.
Jane Rosen is SCRSS Honorary Archivist and an SCRSS Trustee.
She is a librarian by profession and has worked in specialist
historical and cultural libraries, including the SCR. She has
a research interest in radical and working-class children’s
literature.
Tuesday 26 November 2024, 17.00
- 20.00
Evening Exhibition Viewing: A Centenary History of the SCRSS in
100+ Objects
Free entry to the public at the SCRSS centre,
London. As the Society celebrates its centenary in 2024, view
our temporary exhibition A Centenary History of the SCRSS
in 100+ Objects. Exhibits highlight the Society's activities
to support cultural exchanges and contacts with the USSR, including
photographs, publications, scultures and rare artefacts from the
Society's archives, and are displayed on three floors of our building.
The exhibition is grouped by themes by period and cultural areas
such as music, space, science, theatre and more.
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December 2024
Please note: there is no Saturday
library opening in December 2024.
Saturday 7 December 2024, 14.00
- 15.30
In-Person Exclusive Event for SCRSS Members Only
Special guest speaker. SCRSS members - please see full details
and booking link sent by email w/b 4 November 2024. Entry by prior
booking only, limited tickets.
Saturday 7 December 2024, 16.30
- 19.00
In-Person Event: End-of-Centenary-Year Celebration for SCRSS Members
Only
Free pre-Christmas event for SCRSS members only. Drinks and nibbles,
a musical interlude, meet other members and Trustees, and a last
chance to see our exhibition A Centenary History of the SCRSS
in 100+ Objects. Please note:
Doors open 16.15
– strictly no entry for members before
this time due to the preceding event.
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