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Dr Jacob Wiebel's Outputs (4)

Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror: Approaches to Political Violence in Revolutionary Ethiopia (2019)
Journal Article
Wiebel, J., & Admasie, S. (2019). Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror: Approaches to Political Violence in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Journal of African History, 60(3), 457-475. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853719000768

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 upon the Et... Read More about Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror: Approaches to Political Violence in Revolutionary Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Red Terror (2017)
Book Chapter
Wiebel, J. (2017). The Ethiopian Red Terror. In T. Spear (Ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of African history. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.188

The Red Terror was a period of intense political and inter-communal violence in revolutionary Ethiopia during the late 1970s. This violence erupted two years after the revolution of 1974 and was concentrated in the cities and towns of Ethiopia, parti... Read More about The Ethiopian Red Terror.