The Derg (or Dergue; Amharic: ደርግ, lit. ' committee ' or ' council '), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), [4] [5] was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia, including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when they formally "civilianized" the administration although remained in power until 1991. [6]

The government of the Derg consisted of Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party system with communist and later socialist ideology. Opposing feudal system of Ethiopia, the Derg abolished land tenure in March 1975 and began sweeping land reform under Land Reform Proclamation.

The fall of the Derg was a military campaign that resulted in the defeat of the ruling Marxist–Leninist military junta, the Derg, by the rebel coalition Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) on 28 May 1991 in Addis Ababa, ending the Ethiopian Civil War.

2025年3月27日 · Ethiopia - Derg, Famine, Revolution: The Derg borrowed its ideology from competing Marxist parties, all of which arose from the student movement. One of them, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP), believed so strongly in civilian rule that it undertook urban guerrilla war against the military rulers, and anarchy ensued in the ...

In January and February 1975, the Derg nationalized all banks and insurance firms and seized control of practically every important company in the country. However, retail trade and the...

In 1975, the Derg implemented a relatively ‘radical project of land reform’ that entailed the nationalisation of all urban and rural land on the way to building a socialist state. In contrast, the Derg regime actively engaged in eliminating the role of the private sector in economic activity.

2022年7月4日 · The Derg,[1] or the Provisional Military Administration Council (PMAC), was the revolutionary military regime, led by Haile Mariam Mengistu, which ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.

The Derg’s policies of mass resettlement and villagization were not only intended to deal with the crisis of famine; they were also intended to curb the secessionist movements that threatened state sovereignty.

2018年9月27日 · This chapter delves into the background to the 1974 popular revolution and the replacement of the aristocratic feudal monarchy with the military dictatorship. It also highlights the first period of the Derg Derg regime,...

2013年6月3日 · The Derg (which means committee in Amharic) was the bloody communist regime led by Mengistu which governed Ethiopia in the late 1970s and 1980s following the coup d’Etat against Emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974.