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The Role of Ideology in Revolutionary Terror: Comparisons of the French, Russian and Ethiopian Experiences
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) ISSN (Online): 2319-7064 Index Copernicus Value (2013): 6.14 | Impact Factor (2015): 6.391 The Role of Ideology in Revolutionary Terror: Comparisons of the French, Russian and Ethiopian Experiences Tsegaye Zeleke PhD candidate in History at University of South Africa Abstract: Events unfolded during the French Revolution immensely impacted on the ensuing political struggles across the globe. The Terror which took place in Russia and Ethiopia following the 1917 and 1974 Revolutions respectively were among the classic instances. This paper, therefore, attempts to encapsulate how ideology played a pivotal role in the ‘Revolutionary Terror’ orchestrated by the Jacobins in France, the Bolsheviks in Russia and by the Ethiopian Revolutionary forces. But one of the specific features of the Russian Revolution was the recurrent and extensive use of Terror. Yet among the waves of Terror unfolded in Russia, the first one (1918-21) is a classical revolutionary Terror akin to that of the Jacobins. Likewise the Terror that occurred in Ethiopia ostensibly from 1976 to 1978 under the leadership of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam is also akin to this wave of the Bolsheviks Terror. Hence, as indicated hereinabove, the paper compares the three revolutionary Terrors based on the roles of ideology as idiosyncrasy from which terror emanated. Keywords: Revolutionary Terror, Ideology, France, Russia, Ethiopia 1. Ideological Basis of the Terror It seems that the Jacobins of France were the first Revolutionaries who carried out Revolutionary Terror that Although ―the Terror‖ can be defined in many ways, here it had far reaching repercussions. Scholars do not agree on the refers above all to state policy during the period 1793– factors that precipitated the Jacobins Terror (1793-94). -
Liquid Blackness Reflects on the Expansive Possibilities of the L.A
Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Communication Faculty Publications Department of Communication 2015 Encountering the Rebellion: Liquid Blackness Reflects on the Expansive Possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion Films Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_facpub Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Alessandra Raengo. “Encountering the Rebellion: liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films,” in L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, ed. Allyson Nadia Field, Jan- Christopher Horak, Jacqueline Stewart, pp. 291-318. University of California Press, 2015. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Communication at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communication Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. L.A. Rebellion Creating a New Black Cinema E D IT E D BY Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart 15 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www .ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema/edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. -
The Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1984
THE ETHIOPIAN REVOLUTION (1974 to 198 SUBMITTED BY ANDARGACHEW TIRUNEH FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.D LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS JUNE 1990 UMI Number: U044491 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U044491 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 fH£S»S F 6 8 0 O X *=3 HI ABSTRACT The thesis is concerned with the Ethiopian revolution between 1974, when an urban popular uprising broke out, and 1984, when the new regime established the Workers Party of Ethiopia. Chapter 1 discusses the background to the revolution and introduces the factors that became important in the causes and outcomes of the revolution. Part one (Chapters 2 and 3) is concerned with the collapse of the old-s£ate in 1974. Chapter 2 deals with the urban popular uprising of early 1974 which followed in the wake of the structural crisis. Chapter 3 deals with the capture of power by a group of junior officers and privates (the Derg) claiming to represent the security forces. 1974 to 1977 discusses under part two (chapters 4 6) can be taken as the formative years of the post revolutionary order. -
“Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden”: the United States, the Horn of Africa and the Demise of Detente
“Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden”: The United States, The Horn of Africa and The Demise of Detente. Louise Prentis Woodroofe London School of Economics and Political Science PhD International History UMI Number: U615656 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U615656 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 Abstract The decade of the 1970s, despite representing the era of detente, superficially appeared to be one of Soviet successes and American setbacks. From Vietnam to Angola, the USSR seemed to be gaining Marxist friends in the Third World. Because of this, the Soviet Union wanted the United States to recognize it as an equal power in the world. With such acknowledgement, the Kremlin believed that negotiations to limit the arms race would then be mutually beneficial. On the other hand, President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger interpreted detente as a series of agreements and compromises to draw Moscow into an international system through which the United States could exercise some control over Soviet foreign relations, particularly with the Third World. -
Haile Gerima: an African Film Master. by Ntongela Masilela I Would Like to Begin by Expressing My Gratitude in Being Invited By
Untitled Document Haile Gerima: An African Film Master. by Ntongela Masilela I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude in being invited by the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies (IDBS) here at the Claremont Colleges, or better still, the Africana Studies, to introduce Haile Gerima in today's proceedings. Haile Gerima is previleging us here at the Claremont Colleges by showing us tonight his newest film, Adwa: An African Victory (1999), which will be having an official U. S. Premier opening next week-end in Washington, D. C. Please note I say openly and publicly in an open forum Haile Gerima without any formalities of any kind. Even though Haile Gerima is a very brilliant thinker and has been an outstanding Professor of Film Studies at Howard University for the last twenty-five years or so, I would like to banish formal etiquettes when referring to him tonight. We do not say Professor Karl Marx or Dr. Frantz Fanon or Mr. Richard Wright or Ms. Toni Morrison when we refer to great figures in intellectual and cultural history. We just say Karl Marx, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon in order to get immediately into the heart of the matter or into the nitty-gritty concerning their singular and unique contribution to human thought or to measure their civilizational activity. Their greatness does not require formal appendages for its understanding or appreciation or designation. This is likewise the same concerning Haile Gerima whom I take to be a great artist, a monumental figure, and simply a colossus. The second reason for dispensing with formalities tonight is that I have known Haile Gerima for approximately thirty years: from our students days at UCLA in the very early 1970s to our present brotherly friendship today. -
List of Dictators Number Name Country Student's Name
List of Dictators Number Name Country Student’s Name 1 Adolf Hitler Germany 2 Josef Stalin USSR 3 Benito Mussolini Italy 4 Mao Zedong China 5 Ho Chi Minh North Vietnam 6 Francisco Franco Spain 7 Muhammad Reza Pahlavi Iran 8 Vladimir Lenin USSR 9 Saddam Hussein Iraq/ Iraq 10 Kim Il Sung North Korea 11 Josip Broz Tito Yugoslavia 12 Deng Xiaoping China 13 Augusto Pinochet Chile 14 Muammar Gaddafi Libya 15 Kim Jong Il North Korea 16 Park Chung Hee South Korea 17 Enver Hoxha Albania 18 Ferdinand Marcos Philippines 19 Fidel Castro Cuba 20 Janos Kadar Hungary 21 Haile Selassie Ethiopia 22 Pol Pot Cambodia 23 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Portugal 24 Fulgencio Batista Cuba 25 Juan Peron Argentina 26 Francois Duvalier Haiti 27 Charles Taylor Liberia 28 Anwar Sadat Egypt 29 Omar al-Bashir Sudan 30 Meles Zenawi Ethiopia 31 José Efraín Ríos Montt Guatemala 32 Alfredo Stroessner Paraguay 33 Erich Honecker GDR 34 Maumoon Gayoom Maldives 35 Nikita Khruschev USSR 36 Idi Amin Dada Uganda 37 Ruhollah Khomeini Iran 38 Mobutu Sese Seko Zaire 39 Francisco Macias Nguema Equatorial Guinea 40 Klement Gottwald Czechoslovakia 41 Alecksander Lukashenko Belarus 42 Saparmarut Niyazov Turkmenistan Teodoro Obiang Nguema 43 Equatorial Guinea Mbasogo 44 Hugo Chavez Venezuela 45 Tsar Nicholas Romanov II Russia 46 Hissène Habré Chad 47 Havez al-Assad Syria 48 Mengistu Haile Mariam Ethiopia 49 Slobodan Milosevic Yugoslavia 50 Manuel Noriega Panama 51 Robert Mugabé Zimbabwe 52 Islom Karimov Uzbekistan 53 Pervez Musharraf Pakistan 54 Etienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma Togo 55 Todor Zhivkov Bulgaria 56 Isaias Afewerki Eritrea Central African 57 Jean-Bédel Bokassa Republic 58 Józef Klemens Piłsudski Poland 59 Ali Abdullah Saleh Yemen 60 Samuel Kanyon Doe Liberia 61 Levon Ter-Petrosyan Armenia 62 Than Shwe Myanmar 63 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Pakistan 64 King Mswati III Swaziland 65 Sani Abacha Nigeria 66 Yong Shikai China 67 Wojciech Jaruzelski Poland . -
Defending Black Imagination the “LA Rebellion”
1 MUSEUM DIGITAL ARCHIVE NOW DIG THIS! ART & BLACK LOS ANGELES 1960–1980 Defending Black Imagination The “L.A. Rebellion” School of Black Filmmakers JACQUELINE STEWART Artists always think we’re in danger. —Varnette Honeywood in Varnette’s World: A Study of a Young Artist (dir. Carroll Parrott Blue, 1980) It is not called “show art,” we are frequently reminded, but “show business.” Artists everywhere have struggled with the complex relations that obtain between creative expression, material necessity, and the market. But for artists working in the entertainment capital of the world, the stakes would seem to be especially high either to reject the aesthetic and business models exemplified by Hollywood or to assimilate them. For Los Angeles–based artists who are black, furthermore, the complex legacy of black performance (so aggressively confined to modes aimed at pleasing white audiences) complicates efforts to be taken seriously as creative agents and to develop affirming creative practices that are financially sustainable, let alone autonomous. This essay describes some of the ways in which a group of emerging black artists in Los Angeles in the 1970s navigated the show/art/business divides while working in Hollywood’s own medium of film. These filmmakers generated a body of work that reflects and reflects upon the ongoing difficulties of maintaining black creative voices in L.A.’s particular political and industrial climates. In developing their own cinematic voices in an academic environment outside of the dominant film industry, they posited that black creativity is not frivolous or secondary to political change but fundamental to any attempt to restore and preserve the well- being of black individuals and communities. -
Ethiopia's Road to Perestroika: in Search of the End of the Rainbow?
CURRENT AFRICAN ISSUES 9 ISSN 0280-2171 NOIlDlvKA A FR IKA /NSTITUTET ":J",l1 -'j J- 3 O UPPSALA JONATHAN BAKER ETHIOPIA'S ROAD TO PERESTROlKA: In search of the end of the rainbow? The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies OCTOBER 1990 p O Box 1703,5-751 47 UPPSALA Sweden Telex 8195077, Telefax 018-69 56 29 CURRENT AFRICAN ISSUES 9 • • search of the end of the rainbow? JONATHAN BAKER of Studies, 1990 ISSN 0280-2171 © Nordiska afrikainstitutet and Jonathan Baker, 1990 Printed in Sweden by Reprocentralen HSC, Uppsala 1990 Ethiopia's road to Perestroika: In search of the end of the rainbow? There can be no doubt that events in Ethiopia have reached a cross roads. At no time since the 1974 revolution has the credibility and durability of the regime in Addis Ababa appeared so critical. Moreover, reports regarding the situation within the country are confused and shrouded by ambiguity. There has been endless speculation regarding the imminent demise of the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam. This speculation finds support in the fact that the Soviet Union, Ethiopia's main patron, is extricating itself with undue haste from a seemingly hopeless situation, as in Afghanistan, accompanied by its erstwhile al lies from Eastern Europe. Added to this, the various guerilla move ments appear to be making unstoppable advances and havecontrol of large areas in the north. Thus, according to some observers, the writing is very much on the wall for Mengistu. While, at a crude level of analysis, the foregoing remarks may be correct, what is needed is a clearer understanding and contextualisation of the situation. -
The Process of Class Conflict in Ethiopia
THE PROCESS OF CLASS CONFLICT IN ETHI OPIA By Michael Warr This paper is a study of Ethiopia' s exper ience in a pro cess that every socialist revolution must traverse: 1) the political act of seizi ng stat e power and t he subsequent confli ct and, 2) the economic restructuring of class and productive re lations. We will focus on t he fir st because it is the most cen tral phase in consolidating the gains that have already been achieved. In this paper, the simple term "socialist construc tion" is used to avoid the confusion t hat such African countries as Somalia, Libya and the Sudan have caused by claiming to be oriented towards socialism while taking absolutely no steps at transforming economic structures and transferring st ate power to the working class. In Ethiopia, a radical cat aclysm is brew ing beyond the point of mere orientation. The revolution is no simply idealogically buried with its "feet eastward" but is im plementing material plans of socialist construction. It is necessary to start with the political upheaval of February 1974. 116 In 1974 Ethiopians found themselves bound to an ancient feudal monarchy dating back to the thirteenth century. The slave holding state of Axum was cut off from the Red Sea coast, after several centuries of expansion by Moslem Arabia, allowing the feudal princes to seize both the throne and the land.l Eight centuries later, feudalism was to be dethroned and expropriated. The central class opponent was the feudal landlord. A small comprador bourgeoisie existed, but direct colonialism never got much of a footing as a result of the relative absence of imperialist domination. -
Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: an Interview with Haile Gerima
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers (ASC) Annenberg School for Communication 2010 Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima John L. Jackson Jr University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers Part of the African History Commons, Communication Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Film Production Commons, and the Other Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation Jackson, J. L. (2010). Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima. CALLALOO: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, 33 (1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.0.0596 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/368 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Decolonizing the Filmic Mind: An Interview with Haile Gerima Keywords Film, filmmaker African-American Diaspora, Ethnic studies Disciplines African History | Communication | Digital Humanities | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Other Film and Media Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/368 DECOLONIZING THE FILMIC MIND An Interview with Haile Gerima by John L. Jackson, Jr. I received my undergraduate degree from Howard University in the spring of 1993, and I was lucky enough to take one of my final courses, Film Directing, with award-winning filmmaker Haile Gerima. His critically-acclaimed motion picture, -
Navigating Socialist Encounters Africa in Global History
Navigating Socialist Encounters Africa in Global History Edited by Joël Glasman, Omar Gueye, Alexander Keese and Christine Whyte Advisory Board: Joe Alie, Felicitas Becker, William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Lynda Day, Scholastique Diazinga, Andreas Eckert, Babacar Fall, Toyin Falola, Matt Graham, Emma Hunter, Erin Jessee, Isabella Kentridge, Colleen Kriger, Kristin Mann, Patrick Manning, Conceição Neto, Vanessa S. Oliveira, Lorelle Semley, Ibrahim Sundiata Volume 2 Navigating Socialist Encounters Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War Edited by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel R. Harisch, and Marcia C. Schenck Gedruckt mit der freundlichen Unterstützung der Potsdam Graduate School, der Zentralen Forschungsförderung der Universität Potsdam, ,UP - Innovative Ideen fördern‘ und der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck. ISBN: 978-3-11-062231-7 eBook ISBN (PDF): 978-3-11-062354-3 eBook ISBN (EPUB): 978-3-11-062382-6 ISSN 2628-1767 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020952193 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2021 Eric Burton et al., Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Cover image: An East German diplomat welcomes three Tanzanian journalists at Dar es Salaam airport on their return from a seminar in Berlin, ca. 1974 (courtesy of Norbert Böhme). Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com TableofContents Marcia C. Schenck, Immanuel R. -
November 08, 1977 CPSU CC to SED CC, Information on 30-31 October 1977 Closed Visit of Mengistu Haile Mariam to Moscow
Digital Archive digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org International History Declassified November 08, 1977 CPSU CC to SED CC, Information on 30-31 October 1977 Closed Visit of Mengistu Haile Mariam to Moscow Citation: “CPSU CC to SED CC, Information on 30-31 October 1977 Closed Visit of Mengistu Haile Mariam to Moscow,” November 08, 1977, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, SAPMO, J IV 2/202/583; obtained and translated from Russian by Vladislav M. Zubok http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110963 Summary: The memo concerns the visit of Mariam to Moscow and his meeting with the Central Committee. During the meeting he described the problems facing the Ethiopian regime, primarily the war with Somalia and relations with the other countries in the Horn of Africa. Original Language: Russian Contents: English Translation CPSU CC to SED CC, Information on 30-31 October 1977 Closed Visit of Mengistu Haile Mariam to Moscow, 8 November 1977 Confidential With regard to the request of the chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC) of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam, he was received in Moscow on 30-31 October, this year, on a closed [zakritii] visit. On 31 October he had a conversation with L.I. Brezhnev, A.N. Kosygin and A.A. Gromyko. Mengistu informed in detail about the domestic political situation in Ethiopia, about the grave situation on the northern, eastern and southeastern fronts, where the battle is raging against the Eritrean separatists, [and] counterrevolutionary formations and regular units of the Somali army. The separatists succeeded in seizing the main cities of Eritrea, except for Asmara and the port of Massawa.