Zlenko A. Youth Organizations in USSR in 1920th: historiography.

This dissertation complexly analyzes and generalizes historiography results of the studies of the youth organizations history in USSR in 1920th; it represents the analysis of methodological approaches that exist in historiography, theoretical paradigms to the problem of becoming and development of the youth organizations; the research work depicts general regularities, peculiarities of knowledge and concept development, and ascertains the problems and course of the investigation, their character and source typical to these historiographical stages; it defines the negative influence of the totalitarian regime on the content and scientific level of research publications. The thesis outlines the perspective directions of further scientific researches directed on uninvestigated points of the youth organizations history.