Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 |
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| Author:
| Young, John |
| Contribution by:
| Anderson, David
Brown, Carolyn
Clapham, Christopher
Gomez, Michael
Manning, Patrick
Robinson, David
Villalon, Leonardo A. |
| Series title: | African Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-59198-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $104.00 |
Book Description:
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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 Peoples 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...
More DescriptionAlmost 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 Peoples 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 which assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.