Management Of Consolidation Potential Of Patriotism In The Regional Space Of The South Of Russia

Patriotism has a powerful resource potential, which allows consolidating society around socially significant goals and objectives, in connection with which the management of the consolidation potential of patriotism becomes a significant factor in social development. The article actualizes and considers the problem of managing the consolidation potential of patriotism in the South of Russia from the standpoint of critical understanding of the Russian socio-political reality the regional space of which is represented by a complex interweaving of ethno-cultural, confessional, ethno-political and economic processes, and is characterized by tension and contradiction of interethnic relations. The obvious consolidative and solidarity potential of patriotism in the case of its effective use in the regional space of the South of Russia can become the basis for the harmonization of inter-ethnic relations and the solution of acute social problems. However, it depends on the choice of paradigms of patriotism (statist, civil, etc.) in the management strategies of regional power structures and organizations of regional society. In the course of this study, the author substantiates the statist vector of patriotism of the population of the South of Russia, which corresponds to the all-Russian logic of Patriotic education of citizens of the country against the background of curtailment of the democratic course of the Russian state's development, in which patriotism becomes a powerful resource of political influence and manipulation of mass consciousness, and its consolidation potential is used to strengthen the ruling elite and its political course.