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Rodolfo Morandi

Rodolfo Morandi
Minister of Industry and Commerce
In office
1946–1947
Prime MinisterAlcide De Gasperi
Personal details
Born30 July 1902
Milan, Italy
Died26 July 1955(1955-07-26) (aged 52)
Milan, Italy
Political partyItalian Socialist Party

Rodolfo Morandi (30 July 1902 – 26 July 1955) was an Italian socialist politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party and was one of its leading figures following World War II.[1] He served as the minister of industry and commerce in the cabinets led by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi in the period 1946–1947.

Biography

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Morandi was born in Milan on 30 July 1902.[2] He was arrested in Milan together with other 250 socialists in April 1937.[3]

In July 1946 he was appointed minister of industry and commerce to the cabinet formed by Alcide De Gasperi and remained in the office until May 1947.[4][5] He served in the Italian Senate from 1948 and served as the general secretary of the Socialist Party.[6] Within the party he was one of the leaders of the leftist faction, the others being Pietro Nenni and Lelio Basso.[7] The leftist faction left the party in 1960 and joined the Communist Party.[4]

Morandi died in Milan on 26 July 1955.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Stephen P. Koff; Sondra Z. Koff (July–September 1973). "Factionalism: Obstacle to Italian Socialist Unity". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 34 (3): 263. JSTOR 41854580.
  2. ^ a b "Morandi, Rodolfo" (in Italian). Biblio Toscana. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  3. ^ Spencer M. Di Scala (1999). "Resistance mythology". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 4 (1): 68. doi:10.1080/13545719908454996.
  4. ^ a b Spencer M. Di Scala (1988). Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-19-536396-8.
  5. ^ David P. Palazzo (2014). The "Social Factory" in Postwar Italian Radical Thought from Operaismo to Autonomia (PhD thesis). City University of New York. p. 25. Archived from the original on 16 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Rodolfo Morandi (Milano 1902 - 1955)" (in Italian). Museo Torino. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  7. ^ Raphael Zariski (June 1962). "The Italian Socialist Party: A Case Study in Factional Conflict". The American Political Science Review. 56 (2): 374. doi:10.2307/1952373. JSTOR 1952373. S2CID 145437028.
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