Ethiopia: A Political History

Political Era

The Revolutionary Period

1974 – 1991

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The years of military-socialist rule following the 1974 revolution — spanning the Derg and the People's Democratic Republic — defined by Marxist-Leninist transformation, civil war, and famine, until the regime's fall in 1991.


Schema-test stub (draft). Lens: revolutionary legitimacy, the militarized state, and how an ideological project governed and ultimately collapsed. Contains the Derg regime. Full content to follow.

In this era

Regimes

Sources

  1. Andargachew Tiruneh, The Ethiopian Revolution 1974–1987 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).