Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military OligarchyFirst published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh, the earliest known ancestor of the human race, to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a sincere and sensitive observer, who lived through the later historical events which he describes, and indeed played a notable role in several of them. |
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... Ethiopian history was until recently the preserve of Europeans and other ... Ethiopian people . The advent of Ethiopia's own historians - and ... Government . As the last Ethiopian Ambassador in Britain prior to the coming ...
... Ethiopian history was until recently the preserve of Europeans and other ... Ethiopian people . The advent of Ethiopia's own historians - and ... Government . As the last Ethiopian Ambassador in Britain prior to the coming ...
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... government, Commission for Organising the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (COPWE) and Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE). The Dergue in its propaganda activity was effectively using the state-run newspapers, the Addis Zemen and The Ethiopian ...
... government, Commission for Organising the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (COPWE) and Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE). The Dergue in its propaganda activity was effectively using the state-run newspapers, the Addis Zemen and The Ethiopian ...
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... Government in addition to magnificent gifts of ivory, gold and slaves, enjoyed an indirect control over Ethiopia through the appointment of an Egyptian Abune whose primary loyalty was to his country. 9 The irony was that an Islamic ...
... Government in addition to magnificent gifts of ivory, gold and slaves, enjoyed an indirect control over Ethiopia through the appointment of an Egyptian Abune whose primary loyalty was to his country. 9 The irony was that an Islamic ...
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... Ethiopia and Egypt to Great Britain for settlement . The Ethiopian Government fulfilled its share of the treaty by rescuing the Egyptian garrisons from Mahdists and provided them safe passage to the port of Massawa on the Red Sea coast ...
... Ethiopia and Egypt to Great Britain for settlement . The Ethiopian Government fulfilled its share of the treaty by rescuing the Egyptian garrisons from Mahdists and provided them safe passage to the port of Massawa on the Red Sea coast ...
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... Ethiopian chiefs who aspired for the throne made contacts and struck ... Ethiopian throne, had an appreciation for contacts with foreign powers with a knowledge ... Government.'62 The Italian version of the article which required of the ...
... Ethiopian chiefs who aspired for the throne made contacts and struck ... Ethiopian throne, had an appreciation for contacts with foreign powers with a knowledge ... Government.'62 The Italian version of the article which required of the ...
Contents
The Price of Modernisation | |
Notes | |
Critical Stage of the Revolution | |
Major Political Developments of the Revolution | |
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Abune Addis Ababa administrative regions Africa Aksumite Aksumite Kingdom Amharic anti-revolutionaries Armed Forces army Asmera associations cabinet campaign CELU Central Committee Chairman Mengistu Co-ordinating Committee Colonel Mengistu Commander commission congress COPWE Council of Ministers declaration defence Dejazmach delegation Democratic Dergue draft economic elected emperor EPLF EPRDF EPRP Eritrea Ethiopia Tikdem Ethiopian Government Ethiopian Herald Ethiopian Orthodox Church Ethiopian revolution execution foreign government’s Haile Selassie ibid Imperial implementation institutions issued Italian Italy king Labour land leadership London major Marxist-Leninist mass organisations Massawa MEISON Mengistu Haile Mariam Menilek military Ministry National Shengo nationalisation officers Ogaden participate Party of Ethiopia PDRE Peace Talks peasants People’s PMAC Politburo political POMOA President Prime Minister proclamation programme Provisional reform regime Revolutionary secessionists sector Shewa social socialist countries Somalia Sudan Teferri territorial Tesfaye Tewodros Tigray TPLF unity vanguard party villagisation Wollo workers Yohannis