Synopses & Reviews
"... an excellent, comprehensive account of the Ethiopian revolution... essential for anyone who wishes to understand revolutionary Ethiopia." --Perspective
"This masterly history deals with the Emperor and the Dergue... on their own terms.... [Keller] buttresses his analysis with careful and useful detail." --Foreign Affairs
"Keller's analytic grasp of the complex features of Ethiopian history and society from a wide range of sources is remarkable." --African Affairs
Synopsis
Revolutionary Ethiopia is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of the historical roots, development, and results of the Ethiopian revolution of September 1974, which ended the forty-four-year rule of Emperor Haile Selassie.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revolutionary Ethiopia
Part One: Toward a Theory of the Revolutionary Transformation of the Ethiopian Empire
Chapter I Ethiopia as a Bureaucratic Empire
Chapter II The Structure of Politics
Chapter III Policy and the Politics of Survival in the Absolutist State
Chapter IV The Political Economy of a Modernizing Bureaucratic Empire
Part Two: The Genesis of Revolution
Chapter V Development and Social Contradictions, The Seeds of Revolution
Chapter VI Politics, Economics, and Class Conflict, The Precipitating Causes of Revolution
Part Three: Revolution in the Revolution: The Dilemmas of the New Order
Chapter VII The Quest for a New Social Myth
Chapter VIII Socialism from Above?, Power Consolidation in a "Soft State"
Chapter IX Toward Economic Socialization
Chapter X Feudalism Is Dead! Long Live Dependence!
Notes
Index