Peasant revolution in Ethiopia : the Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 / John Young.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: African studies series ; 91.Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, c1997.Description: xiv, 270 p. : maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521591988 (hc)
  • 9780521591980 (hc)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DT390.T5 Y68 1997
Contents:
A note on names, transliteration and the Ethiopian Calendar -- 1. Peasants and revolutions: theoretical directions -- 2. Historical and social background -- 3. Tigray on the eve of insurrection -- 4. Struggle for opposition ascendancy: 1975-1978 -- 5. Challenges and advances: 1978-1985 -- 6. Triumph 1985-1991 -- 7. TPLF and the peasants -- 8. Conclusion.
Summary: In the wake of the overthrow of the Haile-Selassie regime in Ethiopia in 1974 and the coming to power of the military, a number of opposition forces launched insurrections but only one was successful. Young chronicles the liberation of Tigray.
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PRINT PRINT المكتبة الرئيسية الطابق الثالث أ DT390.T5Y68 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0090000139534

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-265) and index.

A note on names, transliteration and the Ethiopian Calendar -- 1. Peasants and revolutions: theoretical directions -- 2. Historical and social background -- 3. Tigray on the eve of insurrection -- 4. Struggle for opposition ascendancy: 1975-1978 -- 5. Challenges and advances: 1978-1985 -- 6. Triumph 1985-1991 -- 7. TPLF and the peasants -- 8. Conclusion.

In the wake of the overthrow of the Haile-Selassie regime in Ethiopia in 1974 and the coming to power of the military, a number of opposition forces launched insurrections but only one was successful. Young chronicles the liberation of Tigray.

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