Informal Democratic Movement in the Frames of Public Policy of 1985–1993 (Based on Rostov-on-Don City)

The article is devoted to the political fate of the informal city organizations of Rostov-on-Don. The stages of the informal movement’s development are marked in the article; informal urban communities of the period 1985–1993 are
classified; the reasons of the decline of such movements' popularity in the context of the socio-political transformations of the era are explained. Playing the role of bearers of ‘glasnost’ and acceleration at the first stage ('perestroyka'), the
informal organizations became the organizational force of urban democratic movement at the second stage, in the period of 1991–1993. The ideas of their public members, however, turned out to be unclaimed by the bulk of the citizens.
Purpose: to analyze the development of informal and democratic movements presented in Rostov-on-Don.
Methods: we used a historical-typological method, historical-systemic, linguistic approaches for studying the history of the development of informal urban communities.
Results: the main reason for the popularity decline of the democratic movement in the urban political environment was the decline in the welfare of citizens in the course of reforms. The parties that appeared during the political changes of 1991–1993 were staffing and not supported by masses. Further study of the problem is seen as the study of biographies of the Rostov-on-Don informal movement's leaders.