The activities of the centre are primarily project-driven. These can be internal projects, collaborative projects with other academic or non-academic institutions and partners, or projects carried out under contract.

Partners of the centre have included the following organisations:

• Moscow State Institute for International Relations - MGIMO (Moscow, Russia)
  
• International Institute of Social History - IISH (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Davies Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge Mass. USA)
• Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation - FAS (Moscow, Russia)
  
• Russian State Archive of Social and Political History - RGASPI (Moscow, Russia)
• Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities - IGITI, State University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)
  
• State Socio-Political Library (Moscow, Russia)
• Centre franco-russe en sciences humaines et sociales de Moscou (Moscow, Russia)
• École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, France)