Revolutionary Ethiopia

• List of Tables AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revolutionary EthiopiaPart One: Toward a Theory of the Revolutionary Transformation of the Ethiopian EmpireChapter I Ethiopia as a Bureaucratic EmpireChapter II The Structure of PoliticsChapter III Policy and the Politics of Survival in the Absolutist StateChapter IV The Political Economy of a Modernizing Bureaucratic EmpirePart Two: The Genesis of RevolutionChapter V Development and Social Contradictions, The Seeds of RevolutionChapter VI Politics, Economics, and Class Conflict, The Precipitating Causes of RevolutionPart Three: Revolution in the Revolution: The Dilemmas of the New OrderChapter VII The Quest for a New Social MythChapter VIII Socialism from Above?, Power Consolidation in a "Soft State"Chapter IX Toward Economic SocializationChapter X Feudalism Is Dead! Long Live Dependence!Notes Index

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