Egidio Gennari (20 April 1876–8 April 1942) was an Italian communist politician who was among the founders of

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. He served at the Italian Parliament between 1924 and 1926 when he was forced to leave Italy due to the repression of the Fascist government. He died in exile in the

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Biography

Gennari was born in

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on 20 April 1876. He was a teacher by profession. He joined the

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in 1897 and headed its left wing. He adopted an internationalist approach during

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. He served as the political secretary of the Italian Socialist Party in 1920 replacing

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in the post and a vice chairman of Presidium of the

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. He also participated in several plenums of the

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or Comintern in the 1920s. His

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in these meetings was Maggi. In 1921 Gennari cofounded the Italian Communist Party. In 1923 the party leader

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was arrested, and the Comintern Executive Committee assigned a group of party members to lead the party, including Gennari,

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and

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. In the party Gennari was part of the faction led by

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. Gennari was elected as a deputy in 1924. In 1926 he settled in the Soviet Union when the Fascist repression intensified. Gennari represented the Italian Communist Party in an international conference organized against war and fascism held in Paris on 23 and 24 November 1935 shortly after the invasion of Abyssinia by the Italian Fascist forces. He died in

Gorky, Russia Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

, on 8 April 1942.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gennari, Egidio 1876 births 1942 deaths Italian anti-fascists Italian Socialist Party politicians Italian Communist Party politicians Politicians from Rome Exiled Italian politicians Italian political party founders Italian Comintern people Deputies of Legislature XXVI of the Kingdom of Italy