Messay Kebede

Ideology and Elite Conflicts

Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why did reasonable demands of Ethiopian masses for change lead not only to the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie, but also to a radical revolution that caused civil wars, economic decline, secession, and ethnic politics, all in the name of socialist equality and freedom? The answer of the book is that elite conflicts over scarce resources promoted mutually exclusive struggles for power, and so mobilized ideologies suitable for zero sum politics, of which radical revolutions are typical expressions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780739137963
• ISBN-10: 0739137964
• Artikelnr.: 33766363

Autorenporträt

By Messay Kebede

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Controversies over the Nature of the Ethiopian Social Change
Chapter 2. Theories of Revolution and the Ethiopian Discrepancies Chapter
3. Ideology and Power Struggle Chapter 4. Subjective Conditions of Social
Revolutions Chapter 5. The Ideological Origins of Haile Selassie's Regime
Chapter 6. Sociopolitical Origins of Haile Selassie's Regime Chapter 7. The
Politics of Cooptation: Strengths and Weaknesses Chapter 8. Social Blockage
and Rising Discontent Chapter 9. The Ethiopian Military and the Formation
of the Derg Chapter 10. Disputes over the Radicalization of the Derg
Chapter 11. Power Struggle and Radicalization Chapter 12. Conflicts for
Power and the Rise of Mengistu Haile Mariam Chapter 13. Narcissism and
Revolution Chapter 14. Ethnonationalism and Political Competition Chapter
15. The Fall of Mengistu and the Derg Chapter 16. Why Social Revolutions
Fail? Chapter 17. Philosophical Extensions