Freedom From Violence and Lies

Robert P. Hughes is professor emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the collected works of Vladislav Khodasevich and the author of numerous articles on modern Russian literature. Richard Taruskin is the Class of 1955 Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1996), Defining Russia Musically (1997), and the Oxford History of Western Music (2005). Thomas A. Koster is the assistant vice chancellor for capital programs and planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

“All of the essays have been lovingly and intelligently edited by Robert P. Hughes, Thomas A. Koster and Richard Taruskin. Not only do their commentaries situate Karlinsky’s work in the context of both his life and the field at the time. . . they also attest to the impact that Karlinsky had on them as a human being, a teacher and a scholar. . . Reading these incisive and invigorating essays, one encounters an individual unforgiving of crassness, stupidity and carelessness, yet appreciative of the creative potential of those who live their humanity fully and authentically."