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Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (African Studies)

By John Young

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0521591988, 9780521591980, 0521026067, 9780521026062, 9780511598654
LCC
DT390.T5 Y68 1997
Open Library ID
OL1009333M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5232062 bytes)
Pages
288\288
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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