title: THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMAL ORGANIZATIONS IN UKRAINE (1987-1989)
abstract: 93 3. The emergence and development of informal organizations in Ukraine (1987-1989) 3.1.1 Historiography of the problem The first attempts to analyze a new social phenomenon -informal organizations -were mostly journalistic and descriptive. At the same time, the pace of socio-political transformations in the republic was ahead of the historiographical novelty of research, which focused mainly on informal youth associations (V. Kononov, I. Sundiev, O. Kashcheeva, R. Apersyan, O. Donchenko, S. Sh