The Ethiopian Revolution (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ አብዮት; 12 January – 12 September 1974) was a period of civil, police and military upheaval in Ethiopia to protest against the weakened Haile Selassie government.

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On 12 September 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and Territorial Army, a Soviet -backed military junta that consequently ruled Ethiopia as the Derg until 28 May 1991.

In early 1974, Ethiopia entered a period of profound political, economic, and social change, frequently accompanied by violence. Confrontation between traditional and modern forces erupted...

The Ethiopian Civil War was a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government rebels from 12 September 1974 to 28 May 1991.

and monarchical rule, the Ethiopian people rose in revolt in February of 1974. Although of a spontaneous nature at its inception, the revolution involved millions of peasants, workers and other working peoples and progressives and began to shake the then existing feudo-bourgeois system at its foundation.

The Ethiopian Revolution ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ አብዮት; 12 January – 12 September 1974) was a period of civil, police and military upheaval in Ethiopia to protest against the weakened Haile Selassie government.

Ethiopian Government tried to suppress the student movement, charging them with instigating trouble, by initiating an extensive anti-student assault through arresting, imprisoning and assassinating them.

Revolution, in Ethiopia where it was all-encompassing, subsuming Marxism-Leninism within it, or in Mozambique where it followed the seizure of power by a nationalist movement, took place in the more backward corners of the continent. Our understanding of the general problem of revolution in Africa, and more particularly that of revolutions which

Ethiopia has in fact experienced a thorough-going revolution - a fact often ignored or denied by the Left internationally, presumably because it was not made by an organised mass movement and because of the fact of military rule.