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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... foreign authors . Foreign scholars made a major contribution towards elucidating many of the complexities of Ethiopia's long historic experience , but often failed to catch the true and authentic spirit of the Ethiopian people . The ...
... foreign authors . Foreign scholars made a major contribution towards elucidating many of the complexities of Ethiopia's long historic experience , but often failed to catch the true and authentic spirit of the Ethiopian people . The ...
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... foreign legion. Tewodros reacted decisively by placing the prelates under house arrest.11 This is an incident which shows where the prelate's primary loyalty lay. In the prelates' eyes the interest of Ethiopia had to be subordinated to ...
... foreign legion. Tewodros reacted decisively by placing the prelates under house arrest.11 This is an incident which shows where the prelate's primary loyalty lay. In the prelates' eyes the interest of Ethiopia had to be subordinated to ...
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... foreign policy was as progressive as his domestic policies . He had a clear cut policy to introduce Western technology in Ethiopia . Securing the technology of the West , obtaining the support of European powers in the defence of his ...
... foreign policy was as progressive as his domestic policies . He had a clear cut policy to introduce Western technology in Ethiopia . Securing the technology of the West , obtaining the support of European powers in the defence of his ...
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... foreign missionaries, explorers and traders. He had even engaged a French citizen for training his army in the use of firearms and modern warfare. He had benefited from his contact in establishing diplomatic relations with colonial ...
... foreign missionaries, explorers and traders. He had even engaged a French citizen for training his army in the use of firearms and modern warfare. He had benefited from his contact in establishing diplomatic relations with colonial ...
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... foreign countries, mainly to acquire arms and ammunition. Menilek who never concealed his ambition for the Ethiopian throne, had an appreciation for contacts with foreign powers with a knowledge of reciprocal demands that were ...
... foreign countries, mainly to acquire arms and ammunition. Menilek who never concealed his ambition for the Ethiopian throne, had an appreciation for contacts with foreign powers with a knowledge of reciprocal demands that were ...
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