Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia\n\nThe Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975\u20131991\n\nThis book chronicles the rise to power of the student controlled Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray.\n\nJohn Young (Author)\n\n9780521026062, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 20 April 2006\n\n292 pages\n22.9 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.438 kg\n\n\""John Young has done a fine job presenting a most fascinating case.\""\nStephen F. Burgess, Political Science Quarterly\n\nIn the wake of the overthrow of the Haile-Selassie regime in Ethiopia in 1974 and the coming to power of the military, a number of opposition forces launched insurrections. But only one movement, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) triumphed, liberating Tigray in 1989, and in an ethnic-based coalition which it dominated, assuming state power in 1991. This is the first chronicle of the history of that struggle, and it is based largely on interviews with peas]