coups d’état

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Other item Libya: The Elusive Revolution

'By God I am confused'. exclaimed Colonel Gadafi at one Libyan popular conference. Where Libya is concerned, who isn't?

Other item The Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État

In this powerful and concentrated exam­ ination of army interventions in African politics, Ruth First produces a general theory of power for independent states which goes a long way towards explain

Other item RF/2/21/12: Qaddafi's Libya (draft of Libya: the Elusive Revolution)

Typescript and typeset drafts for Libya: the Elusive Revolution, with annotations.

Other item RF/2/21/1: "The Story of The Libyan Revolution As Told by Col. Muammar Gaddafi, Chairman of The R.C.C."

Two similar transcripts of Gaddafi's account of preparations for the coup, from Archives of the Directorate of Broadcasting, Directorate General of National Guidance, Tripoli, Libyan Arab Repu

Other item RF/2/21/15: Libya material

A list of material for research into Libya, with annotations.

Other item RF/2/21/8: New secrets revealed by the leader of the Revolution, Col. Gadaffi

A translation of a press release about the early stages of the Libyan revolution.

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