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Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin. Nationalism and internationalism in the Post-Cold War era. Taylor & Francis. 2000: 44 [2022-03-07]. ISBN 0-415-23891-9. （原始內容存檔於2014-01-04）. But sometimes in the course of Eritrea's war for independence, the Islamic card was used to win support from the Arabs in Eritrea's struggle first against the Christian theocracy of Haile Selassie and later against the Marxist-Leninist atheism of Mengistu Haile Mariam in Addis Ababa.
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Anne Applebaum (foreword) and Paul Hollander(introductionPDF file and editor) From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States. Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2006). ISBN 978-1-932236-78-1.
