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SCRSS Russian History Seminar SCRSS, 320 Brixton Road, London SW9 6AB Saturday 8 November 2014 10am-5pm £50 (£40 SCRSS members) Includes deluxe buffet lunch, tea/coffee Fourth speaker this year will be Andrew Jameson, an exchange student in Moscow in the 1960s, who met dissidents of the time and returned with hi-fi recordings of them reading from their works. His talk will include extracts from his collection. Please book as soon as possible to secure a place – and pass on information to anyone you think might be interested. This year's seminar explores different aspects of Russian culture and experience in the period under Khrushchev known as The Thaw (circa 1953-64). In the USSR this was a time of de-Stalinisation, relaxation of censorship and opening up of contacts with the outside world. The seminar includes four lectures, tours of the SCRSS library and refreshments. Places are limited to a maximum of 25, so early booking and payment is recommended. Lecture 1: Housing and Planning Across the 'Iron Curtain': Anglo-Soviet Interchanges in the Khrushchev Era Professor Stephen V Ward, Oxford Brookes University Lecture 2: Visual Art in the Khrushchevian Thaw Years c 1953-1964 Christine Lindey, Birkbeck College, University of London Lecture 3: Sex, Cowardice and Corruption: Soviet Cinema During the Thaw John Riley, writer, teacher, curator and broadcaster, specialising in film and music Lecture 4: Russian Life and People in the Thaw period Andrew Jameson, translator, consultant on Russian language and culture For full details and booking form: http://www.scrss.org.uk/russianseminar.htm or email [log in to unmask] Ralph Gibson Hon. Secretary Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies [SCRSS] Direct Tel: 020 7370 3002 (at RIA Novosti) / Mob: 07740 024 447 SCRSS 320 Brixton Road London SW9 6AB Tel: 020 7274 2282 / Eml: [log in to unmask] / Web: www.scrss.org.uk <http://www.scrss.org.uk/> Registered Charity No: 1104012 Ralph Gibson Hon. Secretary Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies [SCRSS]