What is patriotism: emotion or ideology? If it is a feeling, what forms its basis: love or hate, pride or shame? If ideology, then what is it - conservative or revolutionary; to support whom or what is it focused on: power, nation, class, state or society? In his book, Vladislav Aksenov, using extensive material from the 19th - early 20th centuries, analyzes ideological discussions and emotional registers of various social groups that unleashed a "war of patriotism" in attempts to appropriate the Fatherland.