A century of cultural exchange: SCRSS marks 100 years
From EM Forster to the Soviet War Memorial, the society has fostered British-Russian understanding through turbulent times. Its legacy remains vital today, writes JANE ROSEN
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Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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A CENTURY ago this week, a group of people met at Caxton Hall, London and agreed that the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the USSR (SCR) should be formed.
The purpose was, as the first stated object of the society explained, to collect and diffuse information in both countries on developments in Science, Education, Philosophy, Art, Literature, and Social and Economic Life.
The society was formed to fill a need. The year 1917 saw the first real victory of the working class with the success of the November Russian Revolution. This led to the formation of the first socialist state.
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