Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror

Approaches to Political Violence in Revolutionary Ethiopia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8977072
AutoresJacob Wiebel (0000-0003-1769-9818, Durham University, autor correspondente), Samuel Andreas Admasie (0000-0002-3657-5821, International Institute of Social History)
Ano2019
Volume60
Fascículo3
Páginas457-475
Data de publicação2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853719000768
OpenAlexW2982386704
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas17

This article examines the role of trade unions and of the Kebele – the most local urban administrative structures of the Ethiopian state – in the making of the Red Terror, a period of unprecedented political violence that closely followed the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Drawing on a broad range of new source materials – from labour union files to oral histories and East German State Security archives – this article shows how the Red Terror was in large part the product of synergies between diverse groups and actors within these structures, and how it was rooted in histories, motives, and collaborations that have scarcely been considered in the historiography of revolutionary Ethiopia. In turn, the Red Terror radically reshaped both trade unions and Kebele administrations, affording Ethiopian state actors an unprecedented means of control over civil society and urban residents

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