1st Edition

Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991 From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military Oligarchy

By Teferra Haile-Selassie Copyright 1997
372 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

First 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... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Historical Perspective Chapter 2 The Price of Modernisation Chapter 3 From an Absolute Monarchy to a Military Dictatorship Chapter 4 Critical Stage of the Revolution Chapter 5 Major Political Developments of the Revolution Chapter 6 The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Biography

Teferra Haile-Selassie