Halliday, Fred, and Maxine Molyneux 1981 The
Ethiopian Revolution. London: Verso.
Kapuscinski relates in the book The Emperor, the
Ethiopian revolutionJust before the
Ethiopian revolution (1974), the first members of the Twelve Tribes were sent to Ethiopia, and the organization redefined itself in relation to the wider landscape of Back-to-Africa initiatives and other Rastafari affiliations.
As a result of the
Ethiopian revolution of 1974, Seattle became the landing site of the first mass transfer of black Africans to the United States since the end of slavery, write Scott (emeritus, sociology, U.
What follows is a brief excerpt from my forthcoming book (planned to be a little over 300 pages), "The
Ethiopian Revolution and the Generation of the 1970s: Dreams, Memories and Harsh Realities." The two main characters -- Jembernesh and Kurat -- were childhood lovers in the 1970s.
(17) However, American misinterpretation was clear on every level of the
Ethiopian revolution, and, in large part, the U.S.
The second edition of Bahru Zewde's A History of Modern Ethiopia provides what the first edition lacked: a chapter on the ignominious fate of the
Ethiopian Revolution, its French Revolutionesque vicissitudes, and finally the drawn out collapse of Ethiopia's most autocratic regime, thereby extending the analysis from 1974 through 1991.
In particular, he treats the success of the EPLF largely as an outcome of the 1974
Ethiopian revolution, and especially the political failures of the Mengistu regime, along with support from Eritreans abroad.
But there was one crucial difference between the experience of the Ethiopian left at home and that of its counterpart in North America, namely, while many members of EPRP paid dearly with their lives for theoretical and strategic mistakes made by their short-lived party, ESUNA's theoretical shortcomings, which were not unlike those of EPRP, did not have deadly material consequences for ESUNA militants, the vast majority of whom opted to stay put in North America while the
Ethiopian revolution ran its course.
The
Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 did not, of course, mean writers could flourish.
The
Ethiopian Revolution has a useful chronology of events, and an extensive bibliography, particularly of left wing papers and publications.
Comparing and contrasting the Cambodian and
Ethiopian revolutions of the 1970s, Kissi (African history, U.