EDUCATION OF PATRIOTISM IN MODERN CONDITIONS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Patriotism as an integrating basis for the revival of the spiritual values of society is a stabilizing factor of national and civil harmony in an independent state. The search for consolidating factors of the nation will help to overcome the serious stratification of society in solving national and public issues. Historical experience clearly testifies to the decisive role of the patriotic factor in the formation of the mass consciousness of the people and makes it possible to formulate a number of lessons that, according to the author of this publication, are able to concretize and direct the process of forming patriotic values of modern Russian society.