This book is a comprehensive study of the social roots of citizen raising in contemporary
Russia. It traces the development of governmental patriotic programs in recent decades
discusses how the Soviet past and political traditions influence today's system of patriotism
formation and presents numerous examples illustrating real-life processes in current patriotic
education. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly politicized this
study approaches them from a sociological perspective. It identifies the basic model of
patriotic education as a fairly stable structure born of the values and attitudes of different
agents: teachers school administrators and civil servants. Patriotic education in Russia is
shown as a particular example of how a political idea can lead to the formation of social
structures and how in time those social structures can lead to the restoration of the
original political idea.
