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Liberalism in Russia
Liberalism in Russia (russkiy liberalizm): liberal political tradition from Catherine II's era through Kadets, 1990s reform, and Yabloko, marked by state-interventionist character, narrow intellectual base, and suppression under Putin.
Liberalism in Russia and Eastern Europe
Liberalism in Russia and Eastern Europe is the history of liberal political thought and movements, which peaked in the 1905–1917 Duma era, was banned after 1917, and revived after 1989.
Liberalism in South Korea
Liberalism in South Korea covers the constitutional liberal democratic basic order and the center-left liberal camp led by Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun, Moon Jae-in, and Lee Jae-myung's Democratic Party, distinct from conservative parties that also invoke liberal democracy.
Liberalism in Spain and Portugal
Liberalism in Spain and Portugal was a nineteenth-century constitutional tradition rooted in the 1812 Cádiz Constitution and Portugal's 1820 revolution, shaped by exile networks and accommodation with the Church.
Liberalism in the Netherlands
Liberalism in the Netherlands is a constitutional and juridical political tradition that dominated Dutch politics from the 1830s to the 1870s and produced Thorbecke's 1848 constitution.
Liberalism in the Nordic countries
Liberalism in the Nordic countries is the history of liberal movements in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, shaped by constitutional struggles against royal power.
Liberalism in the United Kingdom
Liberalism in the United Kingdom traces the Whig-to-Liberal Democrat tradition: the 1859 Liberal Party, New Liberalism welfare reforms under Asquith, decline, the 1988 merger, and 72 MPs after the 2024 election.
Liberalism in the United States
Liberalism in the United States: the American branch of the liberal political tradition, from founding-era constitutional limits through New Deal welfare-state liberalism to today's center-left usage, distinct from European classical liberalism.
Liberalization
Liberalization, especially capital account liberalization, is the removal of government restrictions on trade, finance, and cross-border capital flows; covers theory, sequencing, growth and crisis evidence, and the IMF's Institutional View.
Liberals (Italy)
Liberals (Italy): Italian liberal parties and movements from the post-1848 liberal state through the PLI (1922–1994), the Radical Party, and current pro-EU parties Più Europa, Azione, and Radicali Italiani.
Liberated Area of Cambodia
Liberated areas of Cambodia were territories controlled by the Khmer Rouge (CPK) during the 1970-1975 civil war, first created in April 1970, covering 85 percent of the country by 1973, with markets closed and currency abolished, and retained as Democratic Kampuchea's administrative zones after 1975.
Liberated Areas (Oman)
Liberated areas of Dhofar, Oman: zones held by the Dhofar Liberation Front (later PFLOAG/PFLO) during the Dhofar Rebellion 1963–1976, under Marxist rule, reconquered by the Sultan's Armed Forces by December 1975.
Liberated Areas (Sudan)
Liberated areas is the term used by Sudanese rebel movements, most prominently the SPLM/A, for territory under their control rather than that of the central government in Khartoum.
Liberated Zone (Sierra Leone)
Liberated Zone (Sierra Leone): the RUF's own name for territory it controlled during the 1991-2002 civil war, chiefly around the Gola Forest in Kailahun, where it imposed civil administration, martial rule, and self-reliant settlements before UN deployment ended rebel control in 2001-2002.
Liberation (Christina Aguilera album)
Liberation, Christina Aguilera's eighth studio album (also marketed as her sixth), released June 15, 2018 on RCA: first album since 2012's Lotus, 15 tracks, Kanye West and Anderson .Paak collaborations, Metacritic 71, user score 8.5.
Liberation (play)
Liberation is Bess Wohl's memory play about a 1970 Ohio consciousness-raising feminist group and Lizzie's daughter fifty years later. It won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play, with Susannah Flood starring under Whitney White's direction.
Liberation Army of South Vietnam
Liberation Army of South Vietnam (Quân Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam; PLAF), the National Liberation Front's army, founded 15 February 1961 in War Zone D, fought Ap Bac, Tet, and the 1975 Spring Offensive, and merged into the Vietnam People's Army in 1976.
Liberation Army of the South
The Liberation Army of the South (Ejército Libertador del Sur) was the peasant army led by Emiliano Zapata in Morelos during the Mexican Revolution, fighting under the Plan de Ayala until his 1919 assassination.
Liberation Bioindustries, Inc.
Liberation Bioindustries, Inc., formerly Liberation Labs, is a New York-based contract precision-fermentation biomanufacturer founded in 2022, building a 600,000-liter commercial-scale plant in Richmond, Indiana for food, pharmaceutical, and industrial ingredients.
Liberation Day (Italy)
Liberation Day (Festa della Liberazione) is Italy's 25 April national holiday commemorating the 1945 CLNAI insurrection that freed Genoa, Milan, and Turin from Nazi-Fascist occupation, established by decree in 1946.
Liberation Day (Netherlands)
Liberation Day (Bevrijdingsdag, 5 May) is the Dutch national holiday marking the 1945 German surrender at Wageningen. Official public holiday yearly, paid day off only every five years; paired with 4 May Remembrance Day.
Liberation Day tariffs
The Liberation Day tariffs were US import duties announced by Trump on April 2, 2025, with a 10 percent baseline tariff and higher rates on many countries.
Liberation Front of the Slovene People
The Liberation Front of the Slovene People (Osvobodilna fronta slovenskega naroda) was the main Slovene anti-fascist resistance organization during the Second World War, founded in April 1941.
Liberation of Finnmark
Liberation of Finnmark: Soviet Red Army freed Norway's northernmost county, East Finnmark, October-November 1944 (Kirkenes 25 October; halted at Tana River 6 November), during the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, while Germans burned the province and evacuated over 50,000 people.
Liberation of Kherson
Liberation of Kherson: Ukraine's 11 November 2022 recapture of Kherson city, the only regional capital Russia took in 2022, after a summer-autumn counteroffensive and Russian withdrawal to the Dnipro's east bank.
Liberation of Paris
Liberation of Paris (Libération de Paris), August 19–26, 1944: Parisian insurrection, Leclerc's Free French 2nd Armored Division entry, von Choltitz's surrender on August 25, and de Gaulle's Champs-Élysées parade.
Liberation theology
Liberation theology, also called theology of liberation, is a Christian theology from Latin America in the late 1960s that treats the gospel as a call to liberation from poverty and oppression.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள்)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers, LTTE), Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group founded 1976 under Velupillai Prabhakaran; fought 1983-2009 for Tamil Eelam state; pioneered suicide vest; defeated May 2009.
Liberator (gun)
The FP-45 Liberator was a single-shot .45 ACP pistol that General Motors mass-produced in 1942 as a cheap insurgency weapon to be air-dropped to resistance fighters in Axis-occupied territories.
Liberec
Liberec football is represented by FC Slovan Liberec, founded 1958, three-time Czech champion (2002, 2006, 2012) and first non-Prague titleholder, playing at Stadion u Nisy.