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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... Peoples' Liberation Front Urban Dwellers' Association Wollamo Agricultural Development Unit Workers' Party of Ethiopia Western Somalia Liberation Front Abune Abyotawi Seded Afe Negus Ato Awraja Blata Dej azmach Abbreviations.
... Peoples' Liberation Front Urban Dwellers' Association Wollamo Agricultural Development Unit Workers' Party of Ethiopia Western Somalia Liberation Front Abune Abyotawi Seded Afe Negus Ato Awraja Blata Dej azmach Abbreviations.
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From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military Oligarchy Teferra Haile-Selassie. Abune Abyotawi Seded Afe Negus Ato Awraja Blata Dej azmach Dergue ECHAT Echege EMALEDH Enderassie Fitawrari. Glossary. of. Terms. Bishop. Amharic term for the ...
From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military Oligarchy Teferra Haile-Selassie. Abune Abyotawi Seded Afe Negus Ato Awraja Blata Dej azmach Dergue ECHAT Echege EMALEDH Enderassie Fitawrari. Glossary. of. Terms. Bishop. Amharic term for the ...
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... Abune (an Egyptian prelate), the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Church music which is still in use was composed by an Ethiopian cleric, Yared. Literature including Kine (poetry) developed tremendously.4 The glory of the Aksumite ...
... Abune (an Egyptian prelate), the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Church music which is still in use was composed by an Ethiopian cleric, Yared. Literature including Kine (poetry) developed tremendously.4 The glory of the Aksumite ...
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... Abune to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The Egyptian Abune was not apolitical in the internal aifairs of Ethiopia. Given the close relationships of the Church and state in Ethiopia successive Abune's from Alexandria had played decisive ...
... Abune to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The Egyptian Abune was not apolitical in the internal aifairs of Ethiopia. Given the close relationships of the Church and state in Ethiopia successive Abune's from Alexandria had played decisive ...
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... Abune's involvement in the internal affairs of the state had happened on several occasions. Monarchs reacted by taking measures ranging from severing relations to, in extreme cases, detention of an Abune. A case in point is Abune Selama ...
... Abune's involvement in the internal affairs of the state had happened on several occasions. Monarchs reacted by taking measures ranging from severing relations to, in extreme cases, detention of an Abune. A case in point is Abune Selama ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 The Price of Modernisation | 54 |
Chapter 3 From an Absolute Monarchy to a Military Dictatorship | 86 |
Chapter 4 Critical Stage of the Revolution | 147 |
Chapter 5 Major Political Developments of the Revolution | 229 |
Chapter 6 The Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | 274 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Index | 339 |
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Abune Addis Ababa Aksumite Aksumite Kingdom Amharic Armed Forces army Asmera associations benefit cabinet campaign CELU Central Committee Chairman Mengistu Co-ordinating Committee Commander commission conflict congress COPWE Council of Ministers declaration defence defined delegation Dergue Dergue’s draft economic elected emperor EPLF EPRDF EPRP Eritrea Ethiopia Tikdem Ethiopian Government Ethiopian Herald Ethiopian Orthodox Church Ethiopian revolution execution financial first foreign government’s Haile Selassie ibid Imperial implementation influence institutions issued Italian Italy king Labour land leadership London major Marxist-Leninist mass organisations Massawa MEISON Mengistu Haile Mariam Menilek ment military Ministry National Shengo nationalisation office officers officials Ogaden participate Party of Ethiopia PDRE Peace Talks peasants People’s Democratic PMAC Politburo political POMOA President Prime Minister Proclamation programme reform regime Revolutionary sector Shewa significant social socialist countries Somalia Sudan Teferri territorial Tesfaye Tewodros Tigray TPLF unity vanguard party Wollo workers Yohannis