Анотація:
The article deals with the analysis of main stages and tendencies of social trans
formations that have been taken place in Ukraine since the wellknown Perestroika in
the ex-USSR. Transformational processes are studied in very important for Ukrainian
society aspects, such as: institutional, sociostructural, and sociopsychological.
Besides, the authors concentrated a special attention on the role of classes, elites, and
the broad masses in the different stages of period have been analyzed.