The article is devoted to the study of contemporary Ukrainian historiography of the activities of public youth organizations in the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The analysis of theoretical approaches, research orientation and main tendencies in the historiography of the problem is carried out. The modern Ukrainian youth movement is becoming more and more active in the algorithm of social life of the country as a participant in the formation and implementation of youth policy. Young people not only represent the largest group of participants in public events, but also try to put forward their progressive views on the further fate of the Ukrainian state and society. In view of this, there is a need to study and rethink the experience and established stereotypes, the dominance of stereotypes, primarily in the Soviet historiography of the research of public youth associations of the USSR of the 20’s and 30’s of the 20th century. The purpose of the article is to study the modern historiography of public youth organizations in the 20-30’s of the twentieth century. In this regard, it is necessary to solve a number of tasks: to analyze the topics of historiographical works devoted to the history of the public youth movement in the 20-30’s of the 20th century; find out the state of development of the topic; to determine the approaches of domestic and foreign authors to study this problem. During the writing of the article it was clarified that for historical researches of the modern period a radical reappraisal of all available historical sources on problems of youth organizations of Soviet origin (general historiographical, historiographic, historical-party, historical-кomsomol, etc.) and foreign Ukrainian is characteristic. In place of the class approach, a civilization came to be discovered in civil society organizations, which considers the youth movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s in the whole variety of contradictions, interactions and multifactorial development. The main areas of modern research were the pro-government communist movement of youth, as well as non-Bolshevik youth organizations, in particular, national minorities, religious groups, and others like that.

civic organizations; historiography; political system; system of public associations; totalitarianism