Liberation Union (Russia)

...Its predecessor was the Zemstvo Constitutionalist Union, an organization of constitutionalist members of the Zemstvo (local government body) that was increasingly taking an oppositional stance against the Tsarist government in the early 20th century, and the Liberation League, a group formed in St. Petersburg in 1904 centered around the liberal magazine Liberation (published in Stuttgart from 1902, edited by PB Struve). It was founded as a merger of these two organizations. Its basic claims were the establishment of a constitutional parliamentary monarchy, the "compulsory expropriation" of landowners' land for a fee, and a pro-British and pro-French approach in foreign affairs.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Liberation League (Russia)" is listed below.

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…その前身は，20世紀初頭にツァーリ政府に対して野党色を強めつつあったゼムストボ(地方自治機関)の立憲派議員の組織〈ゼムストボ立憲派同盟〉と，自由主義誌《解放》(1902年からシュトゥットガルトで発行。編集P.B.ストルーベ)を中心に1904年にペテルブルグで結成されたグループ〈解放同盟〉との二つで，両団体の合同というかたちで発足した。その基本的主張は立憲議会君主制の確立，有償方式による地主の土地の“強制収用”，外交における親英仏路線であった。…

※「解放同盟（ロシア）」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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