Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution

by David Ottaway and Marina Ottaway

Book Overview

In 1962 when Algeria finally obtained its independence from France after an eight-year guerilla war, it immediately embarked upon a second revolution aimed at destroying the colonial economic and social order. While the nationalist leaders struggled for power in the first hours of independence, peasants seized French farms and workers the factories, thus setting Algeria on the road toward a new socialist order. This book is a study of the Algerian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520357116
• ISBN13: 9780520357112
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"