ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some useful resources in English and Russian for scholars interested in incorporating the region into their work. It focuses on post-World War II developments in the areas of residential and landscape planning, which demonstrates that the potential rewards of transnational analysis of modern planning history. The consolidation of planning history as such in the late 1980s coincided, to the detriment of Soviet planning history, with a period of immense instability and disruption in the Soviet Union: Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost, perestroika, and then, in 1991, the dissolution of the USSR. Few Russian-language histories of planning have been translated into English, however, and the details of Soviet urban and regional planning history remain little known outside regional specialist circles. The spatial planning, construction, and management of the Gulag labor camp system is another thriving area of research germane to urban and regional planning history.
