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Article: Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991.(Review)
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- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991. By John Young. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 270p. $59.95.
The author offers a much needed account of an ethno-national liberation movement that dislodged Ethiopia's Afro-Marxist regime after a seventeen-year guerrilla war (1975-91) and received international recognition and acclaim for its pragmatic and innovative leadership. John Young's focus on the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which dominates the coalition government Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), provides the first scholarly attempt to analyze Ethiopia's second "revolution" ...