Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia

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.

• | Author: John Young
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 04, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 290 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0521591988
• | ISBN-13: 9780521591980