Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1969, 222 p. Circulation 2300. Price 91 kopecks. The book is devoted to the analysis of a short but extremely important period in the history of Ethiopia, when the country was struggling to revive and strengthen its political independence. Soviet science has always been interested in the history of Ethiopia. It is enough to recall the works of African studies scholars D. A. Olderogge, M. V. Wright, D. R. Voblikov and others .1 V. S. Yagya's monograph is a continuation and development of the works of these authors and their own works devoted to the modern and contemporary history of Ethiopia. It is based on documentary publications and research in Amharic (the official language of Ethiopia), Arabic, English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish and other languages. The author also made extensive use of the texts of bilateral and multilateral treaties and agreements, official publications of the governments of Great Britain and the USSR, publications of the Ethiopian and Belgian Chambers of Commerce, documents of the Indian Ambassador to Ethiopia on the country's economic situation, letters from Lord Newbold (a prominent official of the administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), memoirs and travel essays by major British officials and war correspondents; works of Ethiopian scientists (for example, Kabbade Mikael, Girma Amare, etc.) and a well-known social activist in England, Sylvia Pankhurst. 1 D. A. Olderogge. Population and social structure of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). "Soviet Ethnography", 1936, N 1; M. V. Wright. Latest data on the state of handicrafts in Ethiopia. "Brief Reports" of the N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, vol. XXIX, 1958; ee, Peoples of Ethiopia, Moscow, 1965; M. V. Wright, E. G. Titov. Ethiopia. A country. People. M. 1960; D. R. Voblikov. The liberation struggle of the people of Ethiopia against Italian Fascism in 1936-1941. "Scientific Notes" of the Institute of Orien ... Read more