The protest culture in the historical and cultural discourse

This article examines the possibility of studying the protest culture based on historical material. As a theoretical framework of this study there are displayed the approaches to addressing the culture of protest existing in domestic and foreign social sciences and humanities and the concepts of recent years, presented in dissertations. There is emphasized the relevance and heuristic value of a broad understanding of the phenomenon of protest culture. As the subject material for research of this kind there is offered an exemplary overview of the historical and cultural phenomena in the history of Russian culture from IX to XXI century, which may be called protest or have some features of protest. In conclusion there is given the thesis claiming the obligatoriness of more thorough and broad analysis of protest and protest culture.