Fifty years after the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, Etana H. Dinka brings together a who’s-who of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. With contributions both from seasoned academics—many of whom wrote about the revolution as it developed—and from representatives of a younger generation, this five-part collection offers new insights not only into the revolution itself, but also into issues such as the Red Terror, the EPRDF revolution of 1991, and Abiy Ahmed’s repositioning of Ethiopia after 2018. Such wide-ranging analyses cumulatively cast Ethiopia’s three successive post-revolution regimes not as separate entities, but rather as successive attempts to fulfil the promise of the revolution surrounding issues such as ethnicity, the nationalities question, economic development, and the land tenure question. In developing this model, the collection captures the defining developments and issues in Ethiopia, the Horn, and the Red Sea region over the past fifty years, and it speaks directly to a global body of knowledge about revolutions; state-making projects and empires; and militarism and military interventions in politics.
A unique collection ultimately expands the historical revolutionary analyses of Ethiopian politics and society to the present in order to suggest new ways of ensuring social, economic, and environmental justice for all, this book is a must-read for researchers and upper-level students interested in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, African Studies, and revolutionary politics and economics in general.
PART I. Broad Historical Context and Ideological Underpinnings
1. Revolutionary Rupture: The Ethiopian and African Experience in History
Richard Reid
2. Marx in Ethiopia: Past and Future
John Markakis
3. The Transformation of the Ethiopian Empire in the Wake of the 1974 Revolution: A Comparative Perspective
Marina Ottaway
4. Ethiopia and the Revolution in the Revolution
John Young
Part II. The Road to the Revolution and Enduring Impacts
5. Ethiopia’s Road to the 1974 Revolution
Randi Rønning Balsvik
6. Struggling for Liberation: Revolutionary Iconographies, Local Nationalisms, and Evolving Practices of Resistance
Sarah Vaughan
7. The Structurality of Technology through the Lens of Ethiopia’s 1974 Revolution and Its Lasting Impacts
Kebene Wodajo
PART III. Landholding System
8. Land, People, and State: Land Tenure and Social-Environmental Justice in Ethiopia, 1974-2023
Gutu Wayessa
9. The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974: Land, Political Power, and the State
Mekuria Bulcha
10. Ethiopia’s Unanswered Land Questions: Claims of Access, Ownership, and Governance
Asebe Regassa
PART IV. Religious Dynamics, Revolution, and the State
11. The Ethiopian Revolution and Religious Dynamics in a 50-years Perspective
Jörg Haustein and Terje Østebø
12. The Ethiopian Revolution, Protestant Christianity and the Formation of Modern Oromo Nationalism: A Study of Agency and Transformation
Ezekiel Gebissa
13. Revolution, Religion, and the State in Ethiopia: Islam and Muslims in Arsii and Jimmaa since 1974
Ketebo Ensene
PART V. Revolution, Nationalism, and State Reorganization
14. The Woyane: Ethiopia’s Enduring Revolution
Kjetil Tronvoll
15. Oromo Nationalism and the 1974 Revolution: How Supporters became Mortal Obstructionists
Getahun Benti
16. Assessing the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution in the Context of the Oromo Question
Asafa Jalata
17. The Afar Nation and the Ethiopian Revolution: Negotiated Autonomy and Liberation Struggles
Éloi Ficquet and Aramis Houmed Soulé
18. The Ethiopian Revolution, Oromo Nationalism and Environmental Challenges in Oromia Tesema Ta’a and Deressa Debu
19. Imperial Heritage, Revolution and State Reconfiguration: A Five-Decade View of Legacies of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
Etana H. Dinka
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