SCRSS BROCHURE

Our colour illustrated brochure provides a detailed introduction to all key collections within the SCRSS Library and Photo Library (including select titles), a background history of the Society and outline of membership activities and benefits.

SCRSS Brochure (pdf, 1,039 KB)

SCRSS INFORMATION DIGEST

The SCRSS Information Digest appears three times a year and includes feature articles, book reviews, select translated articles from the Russian press, Russian-related events listings, SCRSS news, and Soviet Memorial Trust Fund news. See below for details of feature articles in previous issues, together with downloadable PDF versions of the latest issues.

Spring 2010
Publication date: February 2010
'Making the Most of the Trans-Siberian' by Andrew Jameson
'Russia: A Country to Inspire' by Christina Gibbons
SCRSS Digest Spring 2010 (pdf, 104KB)

Autumn 2009
Publication date: September 2009
'The Nazi-Soviet Pact Reconsidered' by Professor Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork
'Windows on War: TASS Posters in the Special Collections Department of the University of Nottingham' by Professor Cynthia Marsh, University of Nottingham
'Diaghilev in England: The Continuing Influence' by Charlotte Kasner
SCRSS Digest Autumn 2009 (pdf, 320KB)

Summer 2009
Publication date: June 2009
'The World of Art' by Christine Lindey
'Intute: Russian Social Sciences Resources Online' by Angela Joyce
'Reflections on Russian Children's Poetry of the Early Soviet Era' by Jill Cunningham
SCRSS Digest Summer 2009 (pdf, 506KB)

Spring 2009
Publication date: February 2009
'The Soviet Union's Contribution to the Defeat of Japanese Militarism' by Keith Bennett
'Radio Rossii' by L Kaplunova
SCRSS Digest Spring 2009 (pdf, 685KB)

Winter 2008
Publication date: November 2008
'2nd Russian Film Festival in London' by John Riley and Charles Stewart
'Along Russian Waterways' by Tony Devereux
SCRSS Digest Winter 2008 (pdf, 193KB)

Summer 2008
Publication date: July 2008
'Mikhail Andreyevich Savitksy' by Christine Lindey, lecturer in art history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
'Study in Russia' by Dr Roy Bivon.
SCRSS Digest Summer 2008 (pdf, 859 KB)

Spring 2008
Publication date: February 2008
'From Moscow to Beijing: An Olympic Journey by Jim Riordan, Visiting Professor in Sports Studies at the University of Worcester.
'Elections in Russia' by Ralph Gibson, RIA Novosti Press Agency.
SCRSS Digest Spring 2008 (pdf, 174 KB)

Autumn 2007
Publication date: November 2007
'Russia and the New Cold War' by Kate Hudson, Chair of CND and Head of Social & Policy Studies at London South Bank University.
'The Campbell Creighton Collection in the SCRSS Archive ' by Charlotte Kasner.
SCRSS Digest Autumn 2007 (pdf, 169 KB)

Summer 2007

'On the 90th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution' by Kate Clarke, former Moscow correspondent of the Morning Star and The Scotsman during the Gorbachev era.
'Art and the Russian Revolution' by Christine Lindey, art historian.
SCRSS Digest, Summer 2007 (pdf, 75 KB)

Spring 2007
'An Englishman at Russian National Unity Day, 4 November 2006' by Andrew Jameson, Chair of the Russian Committee of the Association for Language Learning.
'Does Russia Want Tourists?' by Christina Gibbons, Operations Manager, Regent Holidays.
SCRSS Digest, Spring 2007 (pdf, 57KB)

Autumn 2006
'The New Shostakovich Archive' by Lewis Owens, President of the UK Shostakovich Society.
SCRSS Digest, Autumn 2006 (pdf, 188KB)

Spring 2006
'SCR Architects and Planners Group 1945-91' by Jean Turner, Honorary Secretary of the SCRSS.
SCRSS Digest, Spring 2006 (pdf, 160KB)

Winter 2005
'Russian Football Today' by Jim Riordan, Emeritus Professor of Russian at Surrey University, Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and President of the European Sports History Society.
SCRSS Digest, Winter 2005 (pdf, 160KB)

Summer 2005
'Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War' by Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of History at University College Cork.
SCRSS Digest, Summer 2005 (pdf, 199KB)

Spring 2005
'O! This Learning, What a Thing it is' by James Muckle, Special Professor in Comparative Education at the University of Nottingham - a look at education in Russia today.
SCRSS Digest, Spring 2005 (pdf, 121KB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The SCRSS Information Digest is free to members, £1.00 (non-members)

To obtain a copy of the SCRSS Information Digest, please contact the SCRSS.