THE FRACTAL NATURE OF RUSSIAN PATRIOTISM

Abstract

The article examines the deep psychological mechanisms that ensure the stability of patriotism in Russia, despite the change of political regimes and radical transformations. Through the prism of the fractal approach, it is shown that national identity is structured around three key attractors (“Order,” “Justice,” “Tradition”), which are reproduced at the level of the individual, group and state. The research methodology is based on the fractal analysis of social systems and the idea of historical cyclicism to identify persistent patterns. The stability of this triad is explained by collective traumas, fear of chaos and the need to compensate for geopolitical vulnerability. It is concluded that Russian patriotism is a stable fractal attractor, whose function is psychological protection through the mythologization of the past and the ritualization of statehood, which turns it from a feeling or ideology into an adaptation mechanism of mass consciousness.