1st Edition

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

By John Markakis, Michael Waller Copyright 1986
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1986. This is a collection of editorial and articles covering military Marxist regimes in the African locations of the Horn of Africa, Benin, the People's Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and Burkina Faso.

    Chapter 1 Editorial; Chapter 2 Radical Military Regimes in the Horn of Africa, John Markakis; Chapter 3 Socio-economic Constraints on Radical Action in the People’s Republic of Congo, Samuel Decalo; Chapter 4 The Rise and ‘Thermidorianization’ of Radical Praetorianism in Benin, Michel L. Martin; Chapter 5 The Revolutionary Process in Burkina Faso: Breaks And Continuities, René Otayek; Chapter 6 Madagascar: A Case of Revolutionary Pragmatism, Jean du Bois, de Gaudusson; Chapter 7 The Morphology of Radical Military Rule in Africa, Samuel Decalo; Chapter 8 The Political Orientation Speech (Discours d’orientation politique), delivered by Captain Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, on 2 October 1983;

    Biography

    John Markakis, Michael Waller