The course covers the political, social, and cultural history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet successor states from 1900 to the present.
Besides discussing reading and lecture content, tutorial activities included: an All-Russia Congress of Soviets, in which students represented the platform of the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, or Socialist Revolutionaries; a 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party, in which students sided either with the majority or the United Opposition in policy debates; and a Wikipedia stub expansion project.