PATRIOTISM: EVERYDAY AND EXISTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING
"Patriotism", as a concept and socio-political reality, is in demand today, in connection with the crisis of confidence in interstate R-s and within the Russian society. There are various interpretations of this concept; sometimes he incorrectly identifies with "loyalty". There are also contradictory ideas about the mechanisms for the formation of patriotism, their mixing with propaganda processes and goals. It is necessary to distinguish between the everyday and the existential meaning of "patriotism", that is, the regulative meaning of educating the corresponding feelings among citizens (youth, in particular) and the existential grounds of "feeling of the motherland" and "love of the Motherland". In the article the main postulates of perception and realization of patriotic content of civil life are designated.