| 1 | Introduction to the Course | |
| 2 | Introduction to the Russian Empire | |
| 3 | The Muscovite Heritage | |
| 4 | Peter the Great and the Petrine Reforms | |
| 5 | The Age of Catherine II | |
| 6 | The Eighteenth-century Nobility | |
| 7 | Bureaucratic Monarchy | |
| 8 | The Decembrists | First Paper Due |
| 9 | The Institution of Serfdom | |
| 10 | Nobility in Literature | |
| 11 | Serfdom in Literature | |
| 12 | Alexander II and the Great Reforms | |
| 13 | The Radicalization of the Intelligentsia | |
| 14 | Village Life after the Great Reforms | |
| 15 | Reaction and Counter-revolution | |
| 16 | Empire-Building | |
| 17 | War and Peace in the Caucasus | |
| 18 | Late Imperial Russia | |
| 19 | Workers' Lives | |
| 20 | The Revolutions of 1905 | |
| 21 | The Constitutional Monarchy | Second Paper Due |
| 22 | World War I | |
| 23 | The End of an Era | |
| 24 | The Revolutions of 1917 | |
| 25 | Memoirs | |
| 26 | Review | |