Coverage of problems of the history of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Far East during the transition period to the market in domestic literature

The research of the formation of entrepreneurship in the era of market reforms in Russia is an urgent issue that is important for understanding the transformation process. The article considers the main problems of small and medium-sized enterprises in their coverage of domestic and foreign researchers. The study emphasizes the debatable nature of assessments, highlighting several factors of this historiographic situation: the appearance of publications at different stages of denationalization as a major historical event, including the incompleteness of the privatization process, the non-recognition of its legitimacy in the public mind, the inclusion of authors with different political views, and party belonging, inclusion in the socio-political analytics of publicists and historians of different generations. Various approaches and aspects of studying the problem both at the state and regional levels are given, taking into account the chronological stages of the study. The author has cщme to the conclusion that one of the promising areas in the study of small and medium-sized enterprises can become a socio-anthropological approach. The possibilities and prospects of further study of this issue are analyzed.