SOCIETY FOR CO-OPERATION IN RUSSIAN AND SOVIET STUDIES

: 1934 film poster by I Bograd for the 1931 film ‘Road to Life’, directed by Nikolai Ekk (photo courtesy of the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies)
Description: The SCRSS Library’s theatre and cinema collection covers the entire Soviet period, with detailed materials on the 1920s-30s. It includes the writings of theatre practitioners (Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov, and Nemirovich-Danchenko) and film practitioners (Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Romm), biographies of directors and artistes, histories of theatres, theatre and film criticism. The collection is backed up by a superb visual resource comprising photographs and Russian and Soviet realia.
Website: http://www.scrss.org.uk/theatrekino.htm
Keywords: Music; Soviet Union; Russia; Soviet cinema
Access: Mon-Fri, 1000-1300 and 1400-1800. Appointment necessary.
Access for outsiders: Yes
Facilities: By appointment

Books: 500 books on Soviet films, including encyclopaedias, mainly in Russian.
Journals: Some journals on Soviet film.
Music: Records, scores, 1,000 each; Russian and Soviet classical and folk music.
Newspapers: Collection of cuttings, mainly English translations from Russian Press.
Posters: Posters and transparencies - film posters, political and historical.
Still Images: 300 black and white stills of Soviet films. In total over 60,000 photographs, arts, crafts and realia cater for the picture researcher, set dresser, designer or student.

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