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Imperialism is a global economic system based on the exploitation, oppression, and sometimes outright colonization or occupation of less developed countries by aggressive more developed ones. Social imperialism is “socialism in words, imperialism in deeds,“ or imperialist practices disguised by revisionist, falsely socialist rhetoric as practiced (according to certain schools of thought) by the Soviet Union in the era of its decline in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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Before the 1970s, imperial Ethiopia was politically aligned with the agenda of US imperialism in Africa as well as dependent on it for arms and aid. A mass uprising in 1974 challenged the rule of the authoritarian emperor and demanded democratic reforms. But...
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Horst, I.S. (2021). Ethiopia, Revolution, and Soviet Social Imperialism. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_177
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