Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 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.

Author: John Young
ISBN-10: 0521591988
ISBN-13: 9780521591980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/1997
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.34w x 0.92d