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Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays
by Simon Karlinsky (1924-2009), a prolific and controversial
scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music
who taught in the University of California, Berkeley's Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1964 to 1991. Among
Karlinsky's full-length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva
and Nikolai Gogol, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of
Pushkin; editions of Anton Chekhov's letters; writings by Russian
emigres; and correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund
Wilson. Karlinsky also wrote frequently for professional journals
and mainstream publications like the New York Times Book Review and
the Nation. The present volume is the first collection of such
shorter writings, spanning more than three decades. It includes
twenty-seven essays on literary topics and fourteen on music, seven
of which have been newly translated from the Russian originals.
'Freedom from Violence and Lies' is a collection of forty-one
essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924-2009), a prolific and controversial
scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music
who taught in the University of California, Berkeley's Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1964 to 1991. Among
Karlinsky's full-length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva
and Nikolai Gogol, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of
Pushkin; editions of Anton Chekhov's letters; writings by Russian
emigres; and correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund
Wilson. Karlinsky also wrote frequently for professional journals
and mainstream publications like the New York Times Book Review and
the Nation. The present volume is the first collection of such
shorter writings, spanning more than three decades. It includes
twenty-seven essays on literary topics and fourteen on music, seven
of which have been newly translated from the Russian originals.
This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at
two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California,
Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in
Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in
the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened
to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in
Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly
unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the
centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'-the
Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes
devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of
the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and
Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the
project. Volume ISlavic Cultures in the Middle AgesEdited by Boris
Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes Volume IIRussian Culture in Modern
TimesEdited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno Volume IIIRussian
Literature in Modern TimesEdited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P.
Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1993.
This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at
two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California,
Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in
Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in
the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union, they were convened
to commemorate the millennium of the acceptance of Christianity in
Rus'. This collection of essays throws light on the enormous, truly
unique role that the Christian tradition has played throughout the
centuries in shaping the nations that spring from Kievan Rus'-the
Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians. Although these volumes
devote greater attention to Russian culture, the investigation of
the issue in the history of Christianity in Ukrainian and
Belorussian cultures occupies an important and integral part of the
project. Volume ISlavic Cultures in the Middle AgesEdited by Boris
Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes Volume IIRussian Culture in Modern
TimesEdited by Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno Volume IIIRussian
Literature in Modern TimesEdited by Boris Gasparov, Robert P.
Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes This title is part
of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University
of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the
brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on
a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1994.
The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive
characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized
producers operating on the fringes of the formal economy. In West
African countries, however, the normal situation is to some extent
reversed: a dynamic informal sector dominates the stagnant formal
economy. Moreover, in these countries, small operators coexist with
very large and politically well-connected informal enterprises and
well-organized networks. Notwithstanding its importance, there have
been relatively few systematic studies of this dual feature of the
informal sector in West Africa, and consequently too little is
known about it. One of our hypotheses is that determinants and
appropriate policy responses are likely to differ between "large"
and "small" informal operations. This volume focuses on the urban
informal sector in three capital cities: Dakar (Senegal), Cotonou
(Benin) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). These three countries have
important differences and as a group, are quite representative of
francophone West Africa and to a lesser extent West Africa as a
whole. The authors use a mix of quantitative and qualitative
approaches with data obtained from our new Bank surveys of 900
firms in the three cities, interviews with knowledgeable
stakeholders and participants, and all available secondary data.
For the surveys, the authors designed their sampling strategy to
include three distinctive categories of firms: formal, small
informal, and large informal. In addition, they developed a
comprehensive definition of informality to reflect its complexity
and heterogeneneity. The definition (Chapter 1) covers six
components of informality, whereas previous definitions are
generally limited to a binary classification based on one or two
indicators. The results for West Africa corroborate many findings
from earlier studies, particularly for small informal firms. In
addition, the authors break new ground by shedding light on the
large informal sector and the influence of institutional and
socio-cultural factors in shaping the informal sector.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1971.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1971.
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