Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution
By simultaneously analysing unfolding events in Addis Ababa and Maale, and juxtaposing this with brief contrasting and confirming events and processes of the classic revolutions of France, Russia and China, Donham paints a fascinating picture of a peripheral people's experience of revolution and situates it within a national and global context...a very readable and sometimes even amusing book. - John Young in JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES Donham, unlike so many researchers who lived through various aspects of African revolutions, is able to analyse the impact of revolutionary reforms critically and without the gloss that has managed to obscure the complexities of revolution in the past. - Christine Mason in ASAAP--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.