Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution with a New Afterword on the Postwar Transition

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Against All Odds is the firsthand account of Eritrea s epic 30 year struggle for independence and social justice With almost no outside support, Eritrean nationalist brought successive U.S and Soviet backed Ethiopian governments to their knees At the same time, they worked to liberate women, workers and peasant farmers from centuries of grinding poverty, chronic hunger and numbing oppression Connell argues that it was the blending of a social revolution with political objectives that enabled this uniquely self reliant liberation front to weld Eritrea s fractious society half Christian, half Muslim, from nine ethnic groups m into one of the most remarkable fighting forces in modern history In a new Afterword, he describes their efforts to translate wartime values and experience into sustainable strategies for developing the new country. Best Download Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution with a New Afterword on the Postwar Transition by Dan Connell For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr An incredible, first hand account of Eritrea s 30 year war of liberation from Ethiopia What really struck me about this book is the remarkable ideological and organizational similarities between the Eritrean People s Liberation Front EPLF , whose leader and the current President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, received political and military training in China in 1967, and Fidel Castro s July 26th Movement in Cuba, as described by Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy in Cuba Anatomy of a Revolution Thi An incredible, first hand account of Eritrea s 30 year war of liberation from Ethiopia What really struck me about this book is the remarkable ideological and organizational similarities between the Eritrean People s Liberation Front EPLF , whose leader and the current President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, received political and military training in China in 1967,...OK, the story of the revolution is a hell of a lotawe inspiring than what s going on in Eritrea these past few years But damn, it s a great story I still can t help but admire them.

Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution with a New Afterword on the Postwar Transition
  • English
  • 17 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 325 pages
  • 1569020469
  • Dan Connell
  • Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution with a New Afterword on the Postwar Transition