Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution

by David Ottaway, David Ottaway

1970 book published by the University of California Press. The book relates the independency from France after an eight-year guerrilla war. It immediately embarked upon a second revolution aimed at destroying the colonial economic and social order. This book is a study of the Algerian socialist revolution, of those who made it and those who gained by it. The primary focus is on political behavior, on those aspects of the struggle among Algerian leaders which vitally affected the character of the new order. All was not as it seemed . . .

Genres: Algeria

322 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1970