All of our tours have been designed with the UK National Curriculum in mind. Our tours will be of particular interest to students covering the following topics at each level.

GCSE
History - Russia 1917-1953
Russian - Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing

AS,A2 and A  Level & above
History - Modern European History -
The Russian Revolution.
The Making of Modern Russia 1856 - 1964
Russian - Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing

More advanced college / coursework possibilities

Literature

• Russian Poetry
• Russian Short Prose
• Russian Literature to c.1650
• Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century
• Modern Russian Poetry from Blok to Brodskii
• Modern Russian Prose Fiction
• Individual authors: Bulgakov, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy

Cultural Studies

• Representations of Russia
• The Making of Modern Russian Culture
• Russian Cinema: History, Politics, Society
• Russian Cinema: Men and Women
• Russian Cinema: Innovation and Experiment
• Contemporary Russian Cinema
• Russian Music from its Origins to Shostakovich
• Russian Folk Belief and Folk Tale, Russian Folklore
• The Art and Architecture of Russia 1650-1930
• Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Existentialism

Study of Language

• Introduction to Russian Linguistics
• Modern Russian Semantics and Stylistics

Social Science / Economics

• Russian Government
• Corruption: Causes, Consequences and Control
• Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy
• Emerging Market Economies in Russia and Eastern Europe
• The Russian Economy in Transition
• International Trade and Finance in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Growth and Convergence: With Reference to Eastern European and Russian Economies
• The Geography of Russian National Identity

History

• Introduction to Russian History
• History of Russia to 1598
• History of Russia 1598-1856
• History of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Since 1856
• Stalinism and Destalinisation
• The Russian Revolution 1917-1921
• Reform from Above: Russia in the Age of Peter the Great 1682-1725