Seven Steps Beyond the Crisis Horizon: Reflecting on Past Mistakes

... force of civil patriotism. As the experience of many other countries has shown, it is precisely the patriotic feeling that helps to endure losses and hardships, to cope with the challenges and difficulties typical for any period of social and economic modernization. Such mobilizing patriotism looks to the future, not to the past; it has more to do with hope than with memories, with all the undeniable significance of the latter for the national self-consciousness. It is appropriate to ask what kind of Russia we want to see in ten,...