In this blog post, we analyze Radishchev’s criticism of serfdom and autocracy as revealed in his “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow,” and examine how he came to be reevaluated as a revolutionary symbol by figures ranging from Herzen to Lunacharsky. Radishchev and His Revolutionary Legacy “We Are Sympathizers” (Мы сочувственники). On July 30, 1918, the Soviet People’s Commissariat...