Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975–1991 (African Studies, Series Number 91) - Hardcover

Young, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521591988 ISBN 13: 9780521591980

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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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Review:

"...interesting and stimulating...Peasant Revolution is the first extended and theoretically anchored study that seeks to explore the historical, social, and political forces that led to the birth, growth, and victory of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, and it is a considerable achievement...a significant contribution to peasant studies." International Journal of African Historical Studies

"John Young has done a fine job presenting a most fascinating case." Stephen F. Burgess, Political Science Quarterly

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521591988
• ISBN 13: 9780521591980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290