| Author | : Gebru Tareke |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2009-06-23 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 1993-04-08 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Donald Lewis Donham |
| Publisher | : James Currey |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : 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.
| Author | : Edmond J. Keller |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Elleni Centime Zeleke |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2019-10-14 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Messay Kebede |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Teferra Haile-Selassie |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2013-12-19 |
| Genre | : 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.
