Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia

By - Young, John , Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress Hebraic Section)

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1997

ISBN 10 - 0521591988

ISBN 13 - 9780521591980

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Peasant uprisings

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 963.4 YOU

Physical Description - xiv, 270 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes index

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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.

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