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SCRSS Information Digest

The SCRSS Information Digest appears three times a year and includes feature articles, reports, reviews, select translated articles from the Russian press, Russian-related events listings, SCRSS news and Soviet Memorial Trust Fund news. Printed copies are free to SCRSS members.

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Previous Issues

See below for details of previous issues from 2005 to the present, together with downloadable PDF versions.

2011 2012
2009 2010
2007 2008
2005 2006

2012

Spring 2012
Publication date: 6 February 2012
'The Second World War in Russia Today' by Professor Richard Overy, University of Exeter
'Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia' by Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck, University of London
'New Era in Russian Politics' by Ralph Gibson, RIA Novosti
Plus conference and charity reports, exhibition and book reviews, SCRSS news and Soviet Memorial Trust Fund news.

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2011

Autumn 2011
Publication date: September 2011
'Russian Parliamentary Elections, December 2011' by Ralph Gibson, RIA Novosti
'Russians and the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Space, Part II: The European Republics of the Former Soviet Union' by Dr Nataliya Rogozhina, St Petersburg State University
SCRSS Digest Autumn 2011 (pdf, 1.28MB)

Summer 2011
Publication date: June 2011
'Architect of Disaster? Zhukov and 22 June 1941' by Professor Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork
'The Partisan War in Belarus 1941-44' by Russell Porter
'SCRSS Music Collection' by Hamish Gallie
SCRSS Digest Summer 2011 (pdf, 821KB)

Spring 2011
Publication date: February 2011
'Russians and the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Space, Part I: Transcaucasia and Central Asia' by Dr Nataliya Rogozhina, St Petersburg State University
'The Virtual Training Suite for Russian and Soviet Studies' by Angela Joyce
SCRSS Digest Spring 2011 (pdf, 318KB)

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2010

Autumn 2010
Publication date: September 2010
'Prose Poems: M Il'in and his Contribution to Soviet Children's Literature' by Jane Rosen
'Reflections on the Cicely Osmond Collection' by Jill Cunningham
'On Chekhov's 150th' by Rosamund Bartlett
'Brest Fortress in Belarus' by Russell Porter
'Marius Petipa' by Tony Devereux
SCRSS Digest Autumn 2010 (pdf, 947KB)

Summer 2010
Publication date: June 2010
'Multi-Faith Russia in the 21st Century' by Nataliya Rogozhina, St Petersburg State University
'Business Travel to Russia' by Barry Martin
'The St Petersburg Association for International Co-operation' by Margarita Mudrak
SCRSS Digest Summer 2010 (pdf, 1.61MB)

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

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2009

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, art historian
'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)

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2008

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)

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2007

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 Clark, 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)

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2006

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)

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2005

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
SCRSS Digest, Spring 2005 (pdf, 121KB)

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