ISBN:
0-521-33441-1
,
978-0-521-33441-9
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 284 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 61
Keywords:
Äthiopien Geschichte, politische
;
Revolution
;
Politisches System
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Minorität
;
Agrarreform
;
Sozialismus
;
Nationalismus
;
Wirtschaftspolitik
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Beziehungen, internationale
Description / Table of Contents:
List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Glossary of Amharic words -- Map of administrative regions of Ethiopia -- 1 Revolutions. The conditions for revolution. The construction of a revolutionary political order. The analysis of revolution -- 2 Monarchical modernisation and the origins of revolution. The bases of state and nation. The rise of a modernising autocracy. The origins of revolution. The debacle -- 3 The mobilisation phase, 1974-1978. The revolutionary option, February-November 1974. The great reforms, December 1974-July 1975. The control of the towns, 1975-1978. The conflict for the periphery, 1975-1978. 4 The formation of the party, 1978-1987. The origins of party formation. COPWE. The Workers' Party of Ethiopia. The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -- 5 The Ethiopian state: structures of extraction and control. The old regime. The impact of revolution. The structures of control. The structure of production. The external economy. Surplus extraction and government spending. The structures of distribution -- 6 The control of the towns. The kebelle. The mass organisations. Housing and the control of residence. Socialist distribution. Industry, employment and the urban economy. Education and literacy. The reaction from control -- 7 Rural transformation and the crisis of agricultural production. The peasants' associations. Land reform: its implementation and effects. Agricultural marketing. Agricultural producers' cooperatives. Villagisation. The state farms. The export sector: coffee, sesame and chat. The origins of famine. The domestic politics of famine relief -- 8 The national question. Ethnicity and revolution. Representation and control in regional administration. Regional opposition: the north. Regional opposition: the south -- 9 The external politics of revolution. The structure of foreign relations. Revolution and the reversal of alliances. The foreign policy of proletarian internationalism. The Western response -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 262-275
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