The shift in the value system in Russia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries

This paper looks at the changes of values in the process of the formation of Russian identity over the past quarter century. Beginning from the collapse of the USSR (1991) Russia has been forming a new post-Soviet Russian identity, a system of priority values aimed at strengthening the unity of the multi-national, multi-confessional country with deep social and wealth inequalities. To understand what myth of the civil nation is taking shape in Rus-sia today it is important to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of nationalism and to deter-mine whether there is a difference between nationalism and patriotism, between civil and ethnic forms of nationalis