Table of Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revolutionary Ethiopia

Part One: Toward a Theory of the Revolutionary Transformation of the Ethiopian Empire

Chapter I Ethiopia as a Bureaucratic Empire
Chapter II The Structure of Politics
Chapter III Policy and the Politics of Survival in the Absolutist State
Chapter IV The Political Economy of a Modernizing Bureaucratic Empire

Part Two: The Genesis of Revolution

Chapter V Development and Social Contradictions, The Seeds of Revolution
Chapter VI Politics, Economics, and Class Conflict, The Precipitating Causes of Revolution

Part Three: Revolution in the Revolution: The Dilemmas of the New Order

Chapter VII The Quest for a New Social Myth
Chapter VIII Socialism from Above?, Power Consolidation in a "Soft State"
Chapter IX Toward Economic Socialization
Chapter X Feudalism Is Dead! Long Live Dependence!

Notes
Index