The monograph examines the key moments of Soviet urban planning policy in the initial period of industrialization: the discussion about social resettlement and the reasons for its ban; the campaign for the socialization of everyday life and the reasons for its abolition; principles for choosing territory for the construction of new cities and the shortcomings genetically inherent in these principles; features of the planning organization of socialist cities - centers of territorial organization of the population, reflecting the structure of the structure of the party and administrative leadership of Soviet society; typology of mass housing in socialist towns-new buildings, corresponding to the hierarchy of the social structure of Soviet society; forced migrations as a way of moving labor resources to places of development of territories; forced urbanization as a result of the implementation of the settlement doctrine; formulas for calculating the standard population of socialist cities, embodying the postulates of the labor-mobilization and military-mobilization organization of the country's population.