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The Quest for Socialist Utopia - The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 (Hardcover, New)
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The Quest for Socialist Utopia - The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 (Hardcover, New)
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A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student
movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the
imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's
future. In the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the
Ethiopian student movement emerged from rather innocuous beginnings
to become the major opposition force against the imperial regime in
Ethiopia, contributing perhaps more than any other factor to the
eruption of the 1974 revolution, a revolution that brought about
not only the end of the long reign of Emperor Haile Sellassie, but
also a dynasty of exceptional longevity. The student movement would
beof fundamental importance in the shaping of the future Ethiopia,
instrumental in both its political and social development. Bahru
Zewde, himself one of the students involved in the uprising, draws
on interviews with former student leaders and activists, as well as
documentary sources, to describe the steady radicalisation of the
movement, characterised particularly after 1965 by annual
demonstrations against the regime and culminating in the ascendancy
of Marxism-Leninism by the early 1970s. Almost in tandem with the
global student movement, the year 1969 marked the climax of student
opposition to the imperial regime, both at home and abroad. It was
also in that year that students broached what came to be famously
known as the "national question", ultimately resulting in the
adoption in 1971of the Leninist/Stalinist principle of
self-determination up to and including secession. On the eve of the
revolution, the student movement abroad split into two rival
factions; a split that was ultimately to lead to the liquidation of
both and the consolidation of military dictatorship as well as the
emergence of the ethno-nationalist agenda as the only viable
alternative to the military regime. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus
Professor of History at Addis Ababa University and Vice President
of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He has authored many books
and articles, notably A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 and
Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the
Early Twentieth Century. Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book
Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2015.
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press (paperback)
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Imprint: |
James Currey
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Eastern Africa Series |
Release date: |
2014 |
First published: |
2014 |
Authors: |
Bahru Zewde
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
317 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84701-085-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-84701-085-7 |
Barcode: |
9781847010858 |
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