In 1974 a popular revolution rocked the nation of Ethiopia. Here is the true story of how a generation of young people, inspired by globe-shaking events like the African-American civil rights struggle and the fight against US imperialism in Vietnam—and influenced by the words and deeds of revolutionaries like Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, V. I. Lenin and Mao Zedong—confronted the power of Africa's oldest empire. It's also the story of tragedy and betrayal as a revolutionary generation saw its dream of people's power crushed by a left-talking military and the machinations of global superpowers.
Using extensive citations mined from the revolutionary publications of the moment, eyewitness survivor testimonies, unearthed secret Cold War documents, and original historical narrative, author Ian Scott Horst takes us to the center of the revolutionary process to reveal the political debates and life-and-death drama of a revolution made and unmade.
Ian Scott Horst is a lifelong revolutionary activist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York.
Author(s): Ian Scott Horst
Series: New Roads 6
Edition: 1
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 502
City: Paris
Foreword
Glossary & Notes
Introduction: The Black Vietnam
Chapter 1: 1969, The Commitment
Chapter 2: Countries Want Independence, Nations Want Liberation, the People Want Revolution
Chapter 3: 1970–1973, Getting Organized
Chapter 4: Armed Struggle and the Revolutionary Vision
Chapter 5: 1974, The People Rise
Chapter 6: Socialism and Democracy
Chapter 7: 1975, The Limits of Power
Chapter 8: Symbolic Confusion
Chapter 9: 1976, The Point of No Return
Chapter 10: Ethiopian Fascism
Chapter 11: 1977, The Terror
Chapter 12: Playground of Empires
Chapter 13: 1978–1979, Revolution’s End
Chapter 14: Epilogue, The Poisoned Well
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