- Anna Kuliscioff
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name=Anna Kuliscioff
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birth_date=1857
birth_place=Moskaya ,Crimea ,Russia
death_date=death date|1925|12|27|mf=y
death_place=Milan ,Italy Anna Kuliscioff (or Anna Kulischov, Kulisciov; born Anija Rosenstein; cca. 1857,—
December 27 ,1925 ) was aJewish Russia nrevolution ary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist influenced byMikhail Bakunin , and eventually a Marxist socialist militant; she was mainly active inItaly .Persecuted by the
Imperial Russia n authorities, Kulischov took refuge inParis , where she met the Italian anarchistAndrea Costa , her first husband. After being expelled fromFrance in 1878, she settled in Italy and became the editor of "Critica Sociale ", a major socialist paper, in 1891. An activist for causes such aswomen's suffrage , Anna Kulischov was tried and imprisoned on several occasions.Her views on Marxism influenced
Filippo Turati , who became her second husband. Together, they contributed to the creation of theItalian Socialist Party as leaders of a reformist wing that came to oppose bothCommunism (causing the split of the newItalian Communist Party in 1921) and the irredentist attitudes ofBenito Mussolini (who subsequently left the PSI). Their group was itself expelled from the PSI later in 1921, leading to the creation of a United Socialist Party (PSU) - led by Turati, Kulischov, andGiacomo Matteotti in opposition to the emergingFascism .
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