Otherwise, how about this alternative Soviet Union of the present, which may see the engineering projects of Dubai and the like springing up?
Well, I am of the opinion that, aesthetically, Dubai is today's Soviet Union.
Prior to the 30's there were plenty of fascinating experiments, from constructivism such as Ivan Leonidov:
Heavy Industry Commissariat, 1932
to very advanced experiments in collective dwelling that searched a new way of living for the soviet man such as the Narkomfin Building from 1929:
and other experiments in new architectural typologies for the soviet era such as Konstantin Melnikov's workers clubs in Moscow:
In urbanism, there were also investigations about how the soviet city should be, most important those of the
disurbanists who theorized about the disappeareance of the traditional dity in favor of a network of decentralized cities that would cover the Soviet Union. Their most important contribution was Stalingrad's urban plan, which caused the city to extend through more than 50 km of riverside -one wonders what would have achieved the germans had the city had a more conventional plan.