Potential of welfare activity in the course of formation of national identity of Russians

In article preservation of national identity of Russians is considered considered as important social requirement. Domestic experience of struggle against denationalization on the basis of the organisation of wide welfare activity to its such forms as nonscholastic adult education, cultural and educational work reveals. The analysis is spent on an example of welfare practice of the Russian Abroad focused on struggle against denationalization of new generations of Russian people, growing in a separation from the Native land. Welfare work of Russian emigration was under construction as multipurpose system in which considerable value such components as played welfare institutions (out-of-school establishments, the cultural and educational organisations) and active initiatives of private persons and separate social groups of emigrants. The author underlines danger of extreme forms of ideology of nationalism (fascism, etc.) In formation of national identity. The conclusion that domestic experience of the organisation of welfare activity confirms possibility of constructive and systematic interaction of the state and a society in the course of formation of national consciousness of Russians, their national identity is drawn.