Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2016 9) 91-106 ~ ~ ~ УДК 304.444 Modern Russian Mass Consciousness: the New Wave of Patriotism Larisa S. Nabokova* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 20.09.2015, received in revised form 09.10.2015, accepted 14.11.2015 The present condition of modern Russian patriotism is studied as a system of representations for the archetypical structures of Russian collective unconscious. <...> Currently this system is being interpreted and actualized in the modern Russian mass consciousness, covering new formats and suggesting new formulas. <...> In the article this tendency of the modern Russian public consciousness is presented as an organic synthesis of generic, traditional fi xed archetypes of Russian mentality, belonging to various historical epochs. <...> The article offers a brief historical and comparative analysis of the mythological images fi xed in Russian consciousness that allows us to suggest that the modern Russian mass consciousness in its patriotic meaning is a completely unique phenomenon representing an enormous spectrum of traditional Russian peculiarities and refracting a great number of historical images and archetypical structures. <...> Introduction The substantial essence of patriotism directly depends on the historical conditions, political ideology, objectives and tasks set by the state. <...> In the Antiquity the word patria (“the Motherland”) stood for the home town, while the term patriota meant a native citizen of the town. <...> The polis patriotism existed within the local © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: l-nabokova@yandex.ru # 91 # religious structures, whereas the imperial patriotism strove to bring people together under the power of Rome. <...> Later the role of Christianity in politics was reviewed; thus, after the Roman Empire’s adoption of Christianity it served as an opposition to local paganism and strengthened the unity of the Empire. <...> The patriotism of Russian people is a purely feeling mental originating from paganism, Larisa S. Nabokova. <...> Modern Russian Mass Consciousness: the New Wave of Patriotism expressed in personal loyalty to the Motherland as a many-faced deity, in the love for it, in the desire to protect it, to be proud of it and its people. <...> Conceptual base and methodology Despite the economic and political system of the state, the Russian patriotism issues have always been in the centre of attention <...>