The Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party (''Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiano'', PSRI) was a

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

political party in Italy. It was founded in 1881 as Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna by

Andrea Costa Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that r ...

, a former anarchist converted to democratic socialism, after his marriage with

Anna Kuliscioff Anna Kuliscioff (; rus, Анна Кулишёва, , ˈanːə kʊlʲɪˈʂovə; born Anna Moiseyevna Rozenshtein, ; 9 January 1857 – 27 December 1925) was a Russian-Italian revolutionary of Jewish origin, a prominent feminist, an anarchist in ...

. In the 1882 general election Costa was elected to the

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in Romagna and he later served also as Mayor of

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. In 1893 the PSRI joined the Socialist Party of Italian Workers, under the leadership of

Carlo Dell'Avalle Carlo Dell'Avalle (Milan, 24 April 1861 – 10 December 1917) was an Italian politician, and the first secretary of the Italian Socialist Party. Early career Son of Nicola and Adelaide Giani, he ran away from home at the age of eleven to avoid h ...

.Massimo L. Salvadori, ''Enciclopedia storica'', Zanichelli,

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

2000

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