biography
pronunciation:
[baw(r)deega]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1970)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Resina, Campania, NE Italy. A socialist, he edited Il Soviet , a newspaper devoted to spreading Soviet revolutionary principles (1918–22). A founder of the Italian Communist Party and its first secretary, he was critical of the Third International, and was marginalized by Togliatti and Gramsci at the Lyon Congress in 1926. He was arrested and forced to live on Ponza by the Fascist regime, and in 1930 was expelled from the Communist Party. |
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