FACTORS AND FORMS OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN THE WEST SIBERIAN REGIONS DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE 1950s AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1960s IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL MENTALITY
The article deals with negative reactions of population to inadequate living and working conditions and forms of their protest in the Altai Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast and Tomsk Oblast in the latter half of the 1950s and in the first half of the 1960s. The analysis lets come to conclusion about the specifics of social protest and its expression in the Khrushchev period of Soviet history and regional context. Some governmental decisions in social policy and difficulties of the economic development of the region appear as certain factors of social protest. The author shows population movement, destructive social demonstrations, and low workforce productivity as indicators of social disagreement. Protest actions of population are classified into passive forms (covert criticism of governmental decisions, living and working conditions) and active forms (official request to the government and public protests). The author accentuates the value of protest factor by realization of social policy of the Soviet state in the period under review.