A national state idea in Russia as a factor of consolidation and patriotism: three words and a thousand years
For a thousand years the idea of the nation’s consolidation around the authorities and official unity was a basis of the Russian national state ideology. At all times and within any state system, the powers always tend to safeguard this unity as an ideological foundation of patriotism and a guarantee of the order. The article is devoted to graphic and verbal symbols (the State Emblem, the National Anthem, slogans) that express this idea. The author notes that the main ideological and political slogans were usually formulated by a verbal triad. The author named it as “the law of three parts”. At the end of the article he offers his own formula of a national idea.