Abstract: In recent years, the CIS Parliament has concentrated on the legislative activities of social soft power construction, and provided basic legal compliance in the form of model law for the CIS countries to carry out civic patriotism education in the post-Soviet era. The CIS "Model Law on Patriotism Education" is a typical representative of the legislation. It stipulates the position,principle and action direction that each member state should uphold from the perspectives of concept definition,policy basis, implementation guarantee, and state supervision. The law fully reflects its own characteristics in terms of text structure, discourse logic, historical foundation and innovation of measures, but is inadequate in the spiritual core, the regulatory norms and the implementation supports. It is of profound theoretical and practical significance to analyze and evaluate the legislative intent and content orientation of the law. It can not only provide reference and mirror for similar legislation in China, but also broaden our cognition of the social ideology trend and policy response of CIS countries in the post-soviet era, which may become a new perspective in future studies on CIS.

Key words: civic patriotism education, the Commonwealth of Independent States, model law, post-Soviet, soft power building