Author : Gebru Tareke
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0300156154
Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the 20th century. Here, Tareke brings to life the leading personalities in the domestic political struggles, strategies of the warring parties international actors, and key battles.
Author : Andargachew Tiruneh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521430828
This book is a comprehensive account of the Ethiopian revolution, dealing with the entire span of the revolutionary government's life. Particular emphasis is placed on effectively isolating and articulating the causes and outcomes of the revolution. The author traces the revolution's roots in the weaknesses of the autocratic regime of Haile Selassie, examines the formative years of the revolution in the mid-seventies, when the ideology of scientific socialism was espoused by the ruling military council, and finally charts the consolidation of Mengistu Haile Miriam's power from 1977 to the adoption of a new constitution in 1987. In examining these events, Dr Tiruneh makes extensive use of primary sources written in the national official language. He was also the first Ethiopian nation to write a book on this subject. This book is thus a unique account of a fascinating period, capturing the mood of the revolution as never before, yet firmly grounded in scholarship.
Author : Edmond J. Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253206466
" . . . an excellent, comprehensive account of the Ethiopian revolution . . . essential for anyone who wishes to understand revolutionary Ethiopia." —Perspective "This masterly history deals with the Emperor and the Dergue . . . on their own terms. . . . [Keller] buttresses his analysis with careful and useful detail." —Foreign Affairs "Keller's analytic grasp of the complex features of Ethiopian history and society from a wide range of sources is remarkable." —African Affairs
Author : Fred Halliday
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Donald Lewis Donham
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780852552698
This is a cultural history of the Ethiopian revolution that highlights the role of modernist Marxist ideas as they interacted with local, mostly rural, traditions.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
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ISBN : 1621969142
Author : Messay Kebede
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Elite
ISBN : 9780739137963
Why did reasonable demands of Ethiopian masses for change lead not only to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie, but also to a radical revolution that caused civil wars, economic decline, secession, and ethnic politics, all in the name of socialist equality and freedom? The answer of the book is that elite conflicts over scarce resources promoted mutually exclusive struggles for power, and so mobilized ideologies suitable for zero sum politics, of which radical revolutions are typical expressions.
Author : Elleni Centime Zeleke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004414770
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement’s afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?
Author : Teferra Haile-Selassie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317847946
First published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh, the earliest known ancestor of the human race, to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a sincere and sensitive observer, who lived through the later historical events which he describes, and indeed played a notable role in several of them.
Author : John Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1997-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521591980
Almost unnoticed, in the wake of the overthrow of Emperor Haile-Selassie, the coming to power of the military, and the ongoing independence struggle in Eritrea, a band of students launched an insurrection from the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray. Calling themselves the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), they built close relations with Tigray's poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989, and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.
