| The Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet
Studies (SCRSS) is a library and cultural centre in London that
promotes knowledge of the culture, language and history of Russia
and the former Soviet Union (FSU). The Society is a Registered
Charity No 1104012 and celebrated its centenary in 2024. Find
out about the benefits of SCRSS membership.
The SCRSS Soviet Collections are a library and archive of the
arts, humanities and social sciences of the Soviet Union (1917-91).
See Library & Archive and Photo
Library for more information on the individual collections
and research, and search our online
catalogue. We also have a loan library for members' use. We
organise events and promote Russian
language learning. We are a founder member of the Soviet
War Memorial in London. We facilitate cultural contacts between
the UK, Russia and the FSU. And we publish a journal, the SCRSS
Digest.
SCRSS 2025
Latest Issue of SCRSS Digest
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SCRSS
Digest, Spring 2025, SD-33 (pdf) Lead feature: an exclusive
by Professor Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork, on
'Donald Maclean: Confessions of a Communist Spy', with extracts
from previously unpublished letters by Maclean intended as
reflections for a future (unwritten) biography. Also Avril
Suddaby on 'Lev Vygotsky in London, 1925', marking 100 years
since the founder of Soviet psychology visited England to
attend the 8th International Conference on the Education of
the Deaf. Plus SCRSS news and book reviews. |
Next Events 2025
From Thursday 3 April 2025 for 10 Weeks, 18.00-20.00
Zoom Online Evening Class: Russian
Language for Good Intermediate Level Rolling 10-week class,
suitable for more advanced-level speakers who would like to practise
their conversational skills. One hour free conversation, one hour
reading, with a short break in between. For more information or
to request a free 1-evening trial, email teacher Christine Barnard
on rtstrans1@gmail.com.
Fee for 10 weeks: £60.00 (SCRSS members £40.00).
Why not join the SCRSS to benefit
from the discounted rate?
Saturday 5 April 2025, 11.00-16.00
Event: SCRSS Library
Opening For SCRSS members - other visitors, please make an
appointment by email.
Tuesday 8 April 2025, 19.00-20.00
Zoom Online Lecture: Imaginary
Cinema of the Great Patriotic War: How Do Unmade Soviet Films
Show the Siege of Leningrad? Since 1945, dozens of feature
films and documentaries about the Siege of Leningrad were planned
but never made. 'Imaginary cinema' is a body of all unrealised
scripts and original versions of films that were later subjected
to censorship during the Soviet era and which can only be reconstructed
today through documents in Russian literary and art archives.
Historian Alexei Pavlovsky discusses what these films were about
and what they reveal about the Great Patriotic War. Booking:
SCRSS individual / joint members only, free of charge.
See SCRSS e-newsletters for details of how to book.
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