title: The idea of a nation for the masses and the idea of a nation for the people
abstract: Today, nationalism is being rethought in the context of the difference between constructivist nationalism and ontological nationalism. If in the first the idea of the nation strives to ensure that the masses grow by leaving the people as the subject of history, then in the second the national idea, on the contrary, means the departure of the masses from the historical stage. The social reality constructed for the masses is distinguished by the loss of interest in consolidating thinking as an imm