Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia

ISBN-13: 9780521591980 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 290 str.

John Young

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"John Young has done a fine job presenting a most fascinating case." Stephen F. Burgess, Political Science Quarterly

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Peasants and revolutions: theoretical directions; 2. Historical and social background; 3. Tigray on the eve of insurrection; 4. Struggle for opposition ascendancy: 1975–8; 5. Challenges and advances: 1978–85; 6. Triumph: 1985–91; 7. TPLF and the peasants; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.