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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Social origins of the 1984 coup d'état in Guinea |
Author: | Rubiik, George |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Utafiti |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 93-118 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Guinea West Africa |
Subjects: | coups d'état 1984 sociology social change Political development armed forces |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/utafiti/190/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Postindependence Guinea was caught up in a political and economic crisis originating from Guinea's continued integration into the worldwide capitalist system; a crisis compounded by ideological confusion and revolutionary rhetoric based on the revolutionary myth of Ahmed Sekou Toure as an institution synonymous with the party. The 'popular party', the Parti démocratique de Guinée (PDG), for lack of a clear ideological direction on the part of its leaders, gradually developed from a mobilization oriented party up to the early 1960s into a huge bureaucratic and repressive apparatus. The social basis of the 1984 coup was to be found in the Guinean political economy, a monoculture crop and later mineral oriented stagnating economy, characterized by repression and suspicion of the massive institutions of coercion created by the party. The article traces the origin of the PDG and its ideological development following Guinea's independence in 1958 in order to explain how the military, politically and ideologically nurtured for twenty-six years by the PDG, could stage a pro-Western coup against the very same PDG without any popular resistance by the people and their 'instrument', the people's militia. Notes, ref. |