1. See especially A.H. Brown, ‘Adam Smith’s First Russian Followers’, in the book Essays on Adam Smith, ed. by Andrew S. Skinner and Thomas Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975). There are also other publications by Brown and a number of works by Russian scholars.
2. I deal with Desnitsky and Tratyakov in the corresponding chapter of the book Andrei Anikin, Russian Thinkers. Essays on Socio-Economic Thought in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988).
3. The most comprehensive work on Radishchev’s economic views is the Russian book by E.V. Prikazchikova (1949). See also my book mentioned above and my contribution to the German book Adam Smith gestern und heute 200 Jahre ‘Reichtum der Nationen’ (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1976). There is also a Japanese translation.
4. N.I. Turgenev, Essay on the Theory of Taxes (Saint Petersburgh, 1819), 15 (in Russian).
5. N.G. Chernyshevsky, Capital and Labour — Selected Economic Works, Vol. 2 (Moscow: Politizdat, 1948), 345 (in Russian).