På trods af partiets navn beskrives det ofte som "hverken liberalt eller demokratiskt."<ref>Timothy Colton, Yeltsin: A Life (2011), p. 282; Donald J. Raleigh, ''Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation'', p. 327; The troubled birth of Russian democracy: parties, personalities, and programs. p. 244.</ref> Partiets ideologi er primært baseret på Zjirinovskijs ideer om et "fornyet russisk imperium"<ref name=autogeneret2>Stephen E. Hanson, ''Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia'' (2011). [[Cambridge University Press]].</ref> og en autoritær vision om et "Storrusland".<ref name="Hans-Georg Betz 1994 p. 23">Hans-Georg Betz, ''Radical right-wing populism in Western Europe'' (1994). Palgrave Macmillan: p. 23.</ref><ref name=autogeneret1>John B. Dunlop, ''The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire'' (2011). Princeton University Press, p. 167.</ref>
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