Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party

Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party
Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiano
LeaderAndrea Costa
Founded1881
Dissolved10 September 1893
Merged intoSocialist Party of Italian Workers
HeadquartersRimini, Romagna
IdeologyMarxism
Social anarchism
Positivism
Political positionFar-left
ColoursRed

The Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiano, PSRI) was a socialist political party in Italy.

It was founded in 1881 as Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna by Andrea Costa, a former anarchist converted to democratic socialism, after his marriage with Anna Kuliscioff. In the 1882 general election Costa was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Romagna and he later served also as Mayor of Imola. In 1893 the PSRI joined the Socialist Party of Italian Workers, under the leadership of Carlo Dell'Avalle.[1]

  1. ^ Massimo L. Salvadori, Enciclopedia storica, Zanichelli, Bologna 2000