Far-right Russian nationalist political party
"LDPR" redirects here. For the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics collectively, see
LDNR .
LDPR — Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Russian : ЛДПР — Либерально-демократическая партия России , romanized : LDPR — Liberalno-demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii )[ 23] [ 24] is a Russian ultranationalist and right-wing populist political party . It succeeded the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU) in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union . The party was led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky since its inception until his death in April 2022. Opposing both communism and capitalism of the 1990s, the party scored a major success in the 1993 Duma elections with almost 23% of the vote, giving it 64 seats of the 450 seats in the State Duma . In the 2021 elections , the party received 7.55% of the vote, giving it 21 seats.
Despite the party's name, it has been described as "neither liberal nor democratic nor a party".[ 25] [ 26] [ 27] The LDPR was centred around Zhirinovsky,[ 28] [ 10] and is often described as populist ,[ 10] [ 29] [ 30] nationalist ,[ 31] [ 32] [ 33] or ultranationalist .[ 5] [ 34] It has been described as adhering to statism and authoritarianism ,[ 35] [ 36] [ 37] [ 38] and has also been described as fascist ,[ 39] [ 40] [ 41] though this label has been disputed.[ 29] The party, as part of the "systemic opposition ", is considered to be traditionally loyal to the Kremlin.[ 10] [ 42] [ 43] Its members are generally called "zhirinovets" (Russian : жириновец, lit . 'Zhirinovite').[ 44] [ 45]
^ a b "Структура" .
^ Cite error: The named reference white
was invoked but never defined (see the help page ).
^ Russiaprofile Archived 20 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ (in Russian) Партия — ЛДПР // архивировано 06.03.2019
^ a b "Putin names new governor of restive Russian region hit by protests" . Reuters . 20 July 2020.
^ "Ultranationalists Move to Slap Fines on Use of Foreign Words" . 21 February 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2014 .
^ "Russia's Trump, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Wants to Build a Wall, Ban Muslims, and Nuke the White House" . The Daily Beast. 13 April 2017.
^ [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2016). "Russia" . Parties and Elections in Europe . Retrieved 20 August 2018 .
^ a b c d "Russia parliament elections: How the parties line up" . BBC News Russian . 6 March 2012.
^ [ 9] [ 10]
^ Oates, Sarah (May 9, 2013). Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere . OUP USA. ISBN 9780199735952 – via Google Books.
^ Russian Government and Politics .
^ Cite error: The named reference FEAR
was invoked but never defined (see the help page ).
^ Cite error: The named reference IBP
was invoked but never defined (see the help page ).
^ Colton, Timothy J. ; Hough, Jerry F. (1 December 2010). Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993 . Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815715009 . Retrieved 21 September 2019 .
^ "Russian News Outlets Boycott Parliament After Harassment Decision" . The New York Times . 22 March 2018.
^ [ 16] [ 17]
^ Dorell, Oren. "Putin's Russia: These are the candidates in an election some call a charade" . USA Today . Retrieved 21 September 2019 .
^ Stanovaya, Tatyana (2 April 2019). "The End of Kremlin's Dominance in the Regions" . The Moscow Times . Retrieved 21 September 2019 .
^ [ 19] [ 20]
^ Shekhovtsov, Anton (2017-02-06). "Moscow and the far right in France and Austria" . Eurozine . Retrieved 2023-06-12 .
^ "Устав ЛДПР" . ldpr.ru . Retrieved 27 June 2018 .
^ "Партия — Официальный сайт ЛДПР, информационное агентство ЛДПР, новости ЛДПР" . ldpr.ru . Retrieved 15 September 2017 .
^ Colton, Timothy J. (2008). Yeltsin: A Life . Basic Books . p. 282. ISBN 978-0-7867-3212-8 .
^ Raleigh, Donald J. (2013). Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation . Oxford University Press . p. 327. ISBN 978-0-19-931123-1 .
^ McFaul, Michael; Markov, Sergei (1993). The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs . Hoover Press . p. 244. ISBN 978-0-8179-9233-0 .
^ White, Stephen; Sakwa, Richard; Hale, Henry E. (2010). Developments in Russian Politics 7 . Duke University Press . ISBN 978-0-8223-4459-9 .
^ a b Laruelle, Marlène (2009). In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia . Axel Springer . pp. 85–117. ISBN 978-0-230-10123-4 .
^ "Russia arrests governor on suspicion of ordering murders" . Al Jazeera . 9 July 2020.
^ "Supporter Of Jailed Former Governor Sentenced In Russia's Far East" . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . 20 April 2021.
^ Luxmoore, Matthew (17 July 2020). " 'The Kremlin Is Shocked': Moscow Scrambles For A Response As Protests Rock Russia's Far East" . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty .
^ "Russian election: Big victory for Putin-backed party United Russia" . BBC News Russian . 19 September 2016.
^ "Sergei Furgal: The arrest fuelling anti-Moscow anger in Russia's far east" . BBC News Russian . 17 July 2020.
^ Dunlop, John B. (1995). The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire . Princeton University Press . p. 167. ISBN 978-0-691-00173-9 .
^ Merkl, Peter (2004). Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century . Psychology Press . pp. X. ISBN 978-1-135-76421-0 .
^ Betz, Hans-Georg (1994). Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe . Axel Springer . p. 23. ISBN 978-1-349-23547-6 .
^ Hanson, Stephen E. (2010). Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia . Cambridge University Press . pp. 220–222. ISBN 978-1-139-49149-5 .
^ Umland, Andreas (2008). "Zhirinovsky's Last Thrust to the South and the Definition of Fascism" . Russian Politics & Law . 46 (4): 31–44. doi :10.2753/RUP1061-1940460402 . ISSN 1061-1940 . S2CID 145642992 .
^ Kailitz, Steffen; Umland, Andreas (2017). "Why fascists took over the Reichstag but have not captured the Kremlin: a comparison of Weimar Germany and post-Soviet Russia" . Nationalities Papers . 45 (2): 206–221. doi :10.1080/00905992.2016.1258049 . ISSN 0090-5992 . S2CID 157501716 .
^ "Fascism" . Encyclopædia Britannica .
^ Semenov, Andrei (16 June 2020). "Electoral Performance and Mobilization of Opposition Parties in Russia" . Russian Politics . 5 (2): 236–254. doi :10.30965/24518921-00502005 . ISSN 2451-8913 . S2CID 225675903 .
^ Coalson, Robert (4 June 2019). "Managing To Win: Sagging Popularity Forces Russia's Ruling Party To Dig Into Its Bag Of Election Tricks" . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty .
^ "Значение слова ЖИРИНОВЕЦ. Что такое ЖИРИНОВЕЦ?" . kartaslov.ru . Retrieved 2022-11-25 .
^ "жириновец" , Викисловарь (in Russian), 2022-05-20, retrieved 2022-11-25