Christine Ruane

Biographic Data

ID1020144
NAMEChristine Ruane
GIVEN NAMESChristine
FAMILY NAMERuane
SIGNATURERUANE C
AFFILIATIONSWashington University in St. Louis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Kingdom of Rye

    Christine RuaneARTICLEAgricultural History2024

    Darra Goldstein's The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food is a fascinating history of Russian food and foodways and a valuable addition to the growing field of food studies. The author of several cookbooks and the founding editor of Gastronomica, Goldstein has devoted her professional life to the study of Russian food. Her mastery of the sources—including medieval manuscripts, Russian literature, cookbooks, and discussions of food in …

  • Between Tsar and People

    Harley Balzer, John E Bowlt et al.BOOKBetween Tsar and People2021

  • An Improper Profession

    Christine Ruane, Miranda Beaven Remnek et al.BOOKImproper Profession2001

    Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted from the history of journalism in Imperial Russia. An Improper Profession offers a more complete and accurate picture of this history by examining the w…

  • Rewriting Capitalism

    Christine Ruane, Beth HolmgrenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2000

    The publishing business in fin-de-siècle Russia and the Kingdom of Poland -- The problem of the merchant in Russian literature -- The doll-nation of Polish capitalism -- The birth of the middlebrow? Russian and Polish romances -- The icon and the ad : the marketing of Russian literature -- Patronized saints : polonizing the literary market -- As the market turns, 1890s-1990s

  • Clothes Make the Comrade

    Christine RuaneARTICLERussian History1996

  • Na perelome

    Christine Ruane, N N SmirnovARTICLEThe Russian Review1996

  • Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Russian City Teachers, 1860-1914

    Scott J Seregny, Christine RuaneARTICLEThe Russian Review1996

    This analysis of teachers in St Petersburg and Moscow reveals the effects of government reform in late imperial Russia. As it improved the training of teachers, Russia's autocratic state fostered a professional ethic among those it wished to control

  • Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Russian City Teachers, 1860-1914

    Louise Mcreynolds, Christine RuaneARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

  • Clothes Shopping in Imperial Russia

    Christine RuaneARTICLEJournal of Social History1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Clothes Shopping in Imperial Russia: The Development of a Consumer Culture Get access Christine Ruane Christine Ruane Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 4, Summer 1995, Pages 765–782, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.4.765 Published: 01 July 1995

  • Divergent Discourses

    Christine RuaneARTICLERussian History1993

  • The Vestal Virgins of St. Petersburg

    Christine RuaneARTICLEThe Russian Review1991Cited by: 1

    T eaching was not one of the exalted professions in tsarist Russia. In a country where the professions were just beginning to emerge in the late nineteenth century, low pay and low status were common features of the teaching profession. During the last fifty years of tsarist rule, teachers struggled with the government to gain greater professional autonomy, but tsarist education officials continually thwarted their attempts.2 Moreover, teachers s…