The Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies (SCRSS) aims to promote knowledge of the culture, language and history of Russia and the former Soviet Union.

The SCRSS is a small, self-funding membership organisation with management vested in Annual General Meetings and bi-monthly meetings of its Council. The Council is elected at the Annual General Meeting, together with a number of Honorary Officers, including the President.

The SCRSS was founded in 1924 as the Society for Cultural Relations between the British Commonwealth and the USSR, following the United Kingdom's establishment of diplomatic relations with the new Soviet state. Its founding members were a group of key British and Soviet artists and intellectuals of the day, including EM Forster, Julian Huxley, Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Sybil Thorndyke, Alexei Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, and Konstantin Yuon. They sought to collect and diffuse information in both countries on developments in science, education, philosophy, art, literature, and social and economic life. The Society has continued its work uninterrupted until the present day. In 1992, following the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Society changed its name to its current form.

The Society became a registered charity in May 2004. Registered Charity No. 1104012.

The Society is also a founder member of the Soviet Memorial Trust Fund.