دانلود کتاب The long transition: building socialism in Tanzania

In 1967, five years after independence, Tanzania's leadership declared its intention to dismantle their country's neocolonial social and economic structure and reconstruct it along socialist lines. Without an armed liberation struggle on which to build, however, the consciousness of most of those with power was not equal to accomplishing the task as quickly as had been hoped. While peasants and workers everywhere responded to President Nyerere's call to take the initiative in changing the ways in which they lived and worked, they were met by the authoritarianism of political cadres, technicians and bureaucrats. Impatient for large-scale change, the leadership demanded a complete reordering of living and working patterns in the countryside. The peasants resisted, and authorities used force -- with disastrous consequences.