num_pages: 292
description: Almost unnoticed in the wake of the overthrow of Emperor Haile-Selassie the coming to power of the military and the ongoing independence struggle in Eritrea a band of students launched an insurrection from the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray. Calling themselves the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) they built close relations with Tigray's poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989 and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.
language: English
title: Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975–1991
publisher: Cambridge University Press