Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

First published in 1986. This is a collection of editorial and articles covering military Marxist regimes in the African locations of the Horn of Africa, Benin, the People's Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and Burkina Faso.

Autorentext

John Markakis, Michael Waller

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Editorial; Chapter 2 Radical Military Regimes in the Horn of Africa, John Markakis; Chapter 3 Socio-economic Constraints on Radical Action in the People's Republic of Congo, Samuel Decalo; Chapter 4 The Rise and 'Thermidorianization' of Radical Praetorianism in Benin, Michel L. Martin; Chapter 5 The Revolutionary Process in Burkina Faso: Breaks And Continuities, René Otayek; Chapter 6 Madagascar: A Case of Revolutionary Pragmatism, Jean du Bois, de Gaudusson; Chapter 7 The Morphology of Radical Military Rule in Africa, Samuel Decalo; Chapter 8 The Political Orientation Speech (Discours d'orientation politique), delivered by Captain Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, on 2 October 1983;