Latvian national awakening

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The Latvian National Awakening (Latvian: latviešu [or latvju] tautas atmoda) refers to three distinct but ideologically related national revival movements:^[1]

• the First Awakening refers to the national revival led by the Young Latvians from the 1850s to the 1880s
• the Second Awakening or "New Current" was the movement that led to the proclamation of Latvian independence in 1918^[2]
• the Third Awakening was the movement that led to the restoration of Latvia's independence in the "Singing Revolution" of 1987–1991^[3]