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'A time when Russia's movements in the East are being watched by all with such keen interest seems a fitting one for the appearance of a work dealing with her Central Asian possessions' (from the original Introduction). Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary machinations of the Russian empire. The book is valuable not only because of the quality of the historical work on the early period, but also because of the unique picture that it gives of contemporary views on the potential for Anglo-Russian conflict, at a time when the Russian Empire was Britain's closest rival for Asian hegemony. Scholars of modern Russia and Central Asia will find much that echoes, and indeed drives, more recent events. Includes 34 illustrations and two maps.

Asia, Central --- Russia --- History --- Relations --- Asia [Central ] --- Soviet Union --- Asiatic relations --- Central Asia --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Asia --- History. --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Asia [Central] --- Asia, Central - History --- Asia, Central - Relations - Russia --- Russia - Relations - Asia, Central

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Diplomatic and consular service, Russian --- History --- Sources. --- -Russian diplomatic and consular service --- -Sources --- Russia --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- -Sources. --- -History --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian diplomatic and consular service --- History&delete& --- Sources --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Diplomatic and consular service, Russian - History - Sources.

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In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often on charges of compacting with the devil, the tsars' courts vigorously pursued men and some women accused of practicing more down-to-earth magic, using poetic spells and home-grown potions. Instead of Satanism or heresy, the primary concern in witchcraft testimony in Russia involved efforts to use magic to subvert, mitigate, or avenge the harsh conditions of patriarchy, serfdom, and social hierarchy.Broadly comparative and richly illustrated with color plates, Desperate Magic places the trials of witches in the context of early modern Russian law, religion, and society. Piecing together evidence from trial records to illuminate some of the central puzzles of Muscovite history, Kivelson explores the interplay among the testimony of accusers, the leading questions of the interrogators, and the confessions of the accused. Assembled, they create a picture of a shared moral vision of the world that crossed social divides. Because of the routine use of torture in extracting and shaping confessions, Kivelson addresses methodological and ideological questions about the Muscovite courts' equation of pain and truth, questions with continuing resonance in the world today. Within a moral economy that paired unquestioned hierarchical inequities with expectations of reciprocity, magic and suspicions of magic emerged where those expectations were most egregiously violated.Witchcraft in Russia surfaces as one of the ways that oppression was contested by ordinary people scrambling to survive in a fiercely inequitable world. Masters and slaves, husbands and wives, and officers and soldiers alike believed there should be limits to exploitation and saw magic deployed at the junctures where hierarchical order veered into violent excess.

Witchcraft --- Magic --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Wicca --- History --- Social aspects --- Russia --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Social conditions --- Witch hunting --- Witch hunting - Russia - History - 17th century --- Magic - Social aspects - Russia - History - 17th century --- Trials (Witchcraft) - Russia - History - 17th century

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Caractéristiques nationales russes --- National characteristics [Russian ] --- Russian national characteristics --- Russisch volkskarakter --- Volkskarakter [Russisch ] --- National characteristics, Russian --- History --- Histoire --- Russia --- Russie --- Civilization --- Foreign influences --- Civilisation --- Influence étrangère --- National characteristics, Russian. --- -Civilization --- -Foreign influences. --- Caractéristiques nationales russes --- Influence étrangère --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Soviet Union --- Foreign influences. --- 1801-1917 --- Vie intellectuelle

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Catherine --- Russia --- Europe --- Foreign relations --- Katarzyna --- Ekaterina --- Екатерина --- Katarina, --- Kateřina --- Catharine, --- Catharine --- Catherine, --- Katharina, --- Catalina, --- Katharina --- Soviet Union --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- History --- Catherine - II, - Empress of Russia, - 1729-1796 --- Russia - Foreign relations - Europe --- Europe - Foreign relations - Russia --- Russia - Foreign relations - 1762-1796 --- Europe - Foreign relations - 18th century