2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
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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, USSR, 1975)

July 2009

Illustrated Talk: members of the SCRSS Council on SCRSS - The Early Years (1924 - 39)

May 2009

Event: SCRSS AGM

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 Talk : Clare Kitson on The Soviet Animator Yuri Norstein

Illustrated Talk : Charlotte Kasner on Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

February 2009

Film: Daughter-in-Law (dir. Hodjakuli and Hadjadurdy Narliyev, Turkmen Film Studios, 1972)

Lecture: Catherine Arsenieva-Marshall on Monumental Sculpture of the Soviet Stalinist Era

January 2009

Film: Road to Life (dir. Nikolai Ekk, 1931)

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2008

November 2008

Film: Cossacks Beyond the Danube (Ukrainian State Opera and Ballet, dir. V. Lapoknysh, Kiev Film Studios, 1953)

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)

Event: SCRSS Library Open Day and Book Sale

September 2008

Film: Officers (dir. V. Rogovoi, Gorky Film Studios)

Lecture: Professor 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, Moscow. 1975)

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, Gorky Film Studios, Moscow, 1983)

February 2008

Lecture: Christine Lindey on Aspects of Post-War Art in Belarus: An Illustrated Talk

Film: October Days (dir. Sergei Vasilyev, Lenfilm, 1958)

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)

October 2007

Lecture: Dr Michael Jones on Stalingrad (based on Dr Jones's book Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed, published 2007)

September 2007

Film: Heart of Russia (dir. Vera Stroyeva)

June 2007

Lecture: Charlotte Kasner on The Ballet Spartacus

May 2007

Film: The Beginning of an Epic

April 2007

Event: SCRSS Russian Seminar

Event: Exhibition on 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)

January 2007

Lecture: Dr Roy Bivon on Russian Verb Aspects

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2006

December 2006

Film: Carnival Night (dir. El'dar Ryazanov, 1956)

November 2006

Lecture: Robert Chandler on Russian Literature

October 2006

Film: The Wife (dir. Yuri Raizman, 1955)

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

April 2006

Film: A Mother's Loyalty (dir. Mark Donskoi, Gorky Central Children and Youth Studios)

March 2006

Film: Along Lenin's Road (dir. V. Dudarova, Tashkent Film Studios, 1957)
Lecture: Dr Roy Bivon on The Russian Verb - How Languages Work

February 2006

Film: The Crucified Island (dir. Shota Munagadze, Gruziafilm, 1968)

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, screenplay A. Filiminov, Mosfilm, 1946)

November 2005

Lecture: Jill Cunningham on Children's Literature in Russia - Past and Present
Event: Remembrance Day ceremony at the Soviet Memorial, London
Lecture: Christine Lindey on Art in the Cold War

October 2005

Film: The Bonus (dir. Sergei Mikaelian, USSR, 1975)

September 2005

Film: My Daughter (dir. Viktor Zhilin, USSR, 1956)

August 2005

Event: SCRSS Book Sale

July 2005

Film: Lenin's Paper 'The Spark' (joint Mosfilm / Bulgarian production)

June 2005

Lecture: Jane Rosen of the Imperial War Museum on Soviet Women at War
Film: Skanderbeg (dir. Sergei Yutkovich, Mosfilm, 1953)

May 2005

Event: VE Day 60th Anniversary ceremony at the Soviet Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS AGM
Film: Adventures in Bokhara (dir. Y. Protozanov, Tashkent Film Studios)

April 2005

Film: On the Way to Berlin (dir. Mikhail Yershov, Lenfilm, 1969)

March 2005

Lecture: Jean Turner, Honorary Secretary of the SCRSS, on The Huntly Carter Collection in the SCRSS Library

February 2005

Lecture: Pierre Mosonyi on Modest Mussorgsky
Film: Nikolai Roerikh

January 2005

Film: The Lone White Sail (dir. V. Logoshin, Soyezdet Film, 1937)
Lecture: Leon Greenman, OBE, on An Englishman in Auschwitz (Soviet Memorial lecture at the Imperial War Museum)
Event: Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony and wreath-laying at the Soviet 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)
Event: Wreathlaying at the Soviet Memorial, London, to commemorate Remembrance Day and 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)

September 2004

Lecture: Alan Spence on Garden Cities in Russia and the Soviet Union
Film: Man with a Gun (dir. Sergei Yutkevich, 1938)

August 2004

Event: SCRSS Russian Book and Souvenir Sale

July 2004

Event: Wreath-laying at the Soviet Memorial, London, to commemorate Belarus National Liberation Day

June 2004

Film: Goal! Goal! Another Goal!

May 2004

Event: VE Day wreath-laying at the Soviet Memorial, London. Lecture on the Normandy landings and film show on the Second Front, Imperial War Museum
Film: The Warmth of Your Hands

April 2004

Event: SCRSS AGM
Film: Three Men and a Dog
Film: Tanya's Dog Baghera

March 2004

Lecture: John Riley on The Music of Prokofiev
Film: Heroes of Shipka (dir. S. Vasiliev, 1954)

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 Memorial, London
Film: Cavalier of the Golden Star (dir. Yuri Raizman, 1950)

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2003

December 2003

Lecture: Vladimir Molchanov, First Secretary at the Russian Embassy, 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)

October 2003

Lecture: Felicity Cave on The UK@SPb British Programme for St Petersburg's 300th Anniversary
Film: Adventures of Artyomka (dir. A. Apsolon)

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)

August 2003

Film: The Centre Forward (dir. Derevyansky and Zemgano, 1946)

May 2003

Lecture: Professor Leonid Seleznev on The Leningrad Blockade (VE Day lecture, Imperial War Museum)
Event: May 9 wreath-laying at the Soviet Memorial, London
Event: SCRSS AGM
Film: The Funny Boy from Form B

April 2003

Lecture: Barbara Ellis on Russian Folk Music
Film: Young Guard Part II (dir. Sergei Gerasimov)

March 2003

Lecture: Ralph Gibson of RIA-Novosti on Contemporary Russia
Film: Young Guard Part I (dir. Sergei Gerasimov, 1947)

February 2003

Lecture: Dr Dennis Ogden on Translating in Moscow in the 1950s
Film: Member of the Government (dir. Alexander Zarkhi, 1939)

January 2003

Lecture: Professor Jim Riordan on Soviet Sport
Film: Journey through Fire (dir. Samsonov)

Note: events for 2002 and earlier are not listed on this website

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