Records of the Cambridge University Slavonic Society, 1932 - 1983
Scope and Contents
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Dates
- Creation: 1932 - 1983
Creator
- Cambridge University Slavonic Society (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Biographical / Historical
The opening minutes of volume SOC.50.1 (Easter Term 1932) indicate that this is a new manifestation of the lapsed Russian Society. This was a social group meeting to appreciate Slavonic culture. The society organised viewings of Eastern European films, gave parties and produced occasional plays. It also arranged talks, the speakers at which included the exiled dissident Vladmir Bukovsky, Leo Tolstoy's grandson Sergei, the Czech philosopher Julius Tomin and the Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Extent
2 volume(s) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Russian
Former / Other Reference
Ms.Add.8690
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These items was transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 3 October 2007. They had been presented by Cambridge University Slavonic Society to the Manuscripts Department on 12 October 1987and had been given the classmark Ms.Add.8690.
General
The online catalogue entry was completed in October 2007 and emended in November 2007 and February 2008.
Date information
DateText: 1932-55, 1981-3.
Originator(s)
Cambridge University Slavonic Society
Finding aid date
2007-10-03 09:50:57+00:00
Topical
Repository Details
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