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Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia : The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (African Studies)
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia The Tigray People's Liberation Front 19751991 - African Studies Author:John Young 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 People's Liberation Front (TPLF), they built close relations wit... more »h Tigray's poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989, and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.« less