Revolutionary Ethiopia - From Empire to People's Republic

Revolutionary Ethiopia is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of the historical roots, development, and results of the Ethiopian revolution of September 1974, which ended the forty-four-year rule of Emperor Haile Selassie.

List of contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Revolutionary Ethiopia

Part One: Toward a Theory of the Revolutionary Transformation of the Ethiopian Empire

Chapter I Ethiopia as a Bureaucratic Empire

Chapter II The Structure of Politics

Chapter III Policy and the Politics of Survival in the Absolutist State

Chapter IV The Political Economy of a Modernizing Bureaucratic Empire

Part Two: The Genesis of Revolution

Chapter V Development and Social Contradictions, The Seeds of Revolution

Chapter VI Politics, Economics, and Class Conflict, The Precipitating Causes of Revolution

Part Three: Revolution in the Revolution: The Dilemmas of the New Order

Chapter VII The Quest for a New Social Myth

Chapter VIII Socialism from Above?, Power Consolidation in a "Soft State"

Chapter IX Toward Economic Socialization

Chapter X Feudalism Is Dead! Long Live Dependence!

Notes

Index

About the author

Edmond J. Keller

Summary

Presents a comprehensive account of the Ethiopian revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Edmond J Keller, Edmond J. Keller, Keller Edmond J
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1991
• EAN: 9780253206466
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20646-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: A Midland Book; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous