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This article is an attempt to reexamine the historiography of socialist cities in the Post-Soviet Russia. Historians of Soviet Russia had paid attention to reconstruct of socialist space and focused on the fundamental principles underlying the foundation of the entire Soviet housing policy based on the postulates of Marxist-Leninist ideology, therefore tend to overlook discriminatory compulsory nature of housing policy for a long time. After the 'archival revolution' in the early 1990s, researchers have started to fall off the ideological constraints on the nature of generalizations and conclusions were gradually reject the required format synthesis and study materials. On the one hand, there are approaches on introspections about the unique characteristics of socialist urban space, on the other hand attentions from the relations between authorities and various actors who had participated to construct the socialist space. This paper suggests to look into the housing policy-urban planning of Soviet government, architects' experiments to construct of socialist space, and public monuments reflected the realities of socialism.