Paul R Josephson

Biographic Data

ID1042453
NAMEPaul R Josephson
GIVEN NAMESPaul R
FAMILY NAMEJosephson
SIGNATUREJOSEPHSON P R
AFFILIATIONS1(The National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • The History of Birobidzhan: Building A Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia

    Gennady Estraikh, Edyta Bojanowska et al.BOOKThe History of Birobidzhan2023

    Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…

  • Empire-Building and Frontier of Soviet and Post-Soviet Times

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, Colby College et al.ARTICLEUral Historical Journal2021

    The paper deals with the strategies of colonization and assimilation of frontier in Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia in relation to, Siberia and the Far East. These frontier spaces were disturbing the Soviet leadership for they were both vulnerable for an external invasion and unsupportive of the new socialist order. Thus, countryside of Soviet Russia was also seen as frontier of its own kind. The conquest of frontier and its integration into …

  • The Conquest of the Russian Arctic

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonBOOKConquest of the Russian Arctic2014

    Spanning nine time zones, the Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. Paul Josephson describes the massive effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the Soviet empire--effects still being felt today, as Putin redoubles efforts to secure the Arctic, which he sees as key to Russia's economic and military status

  • The Ocean's Hot Dog: The Development of the Fish Stick

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2008Cited by: 2

    The Ocean's Hot Dog:The Development of the Fish Stick Paul Josephson (bio) "Der Mensch ist, was er isst." —Ludwig Feuerbach 1 The fish stick—the bane of schoolchildren who generally consider it an overcooked, bread-encrusted, cardboard-tasting, fish-less effort of lunchrooms and mothers to deceive them into consuming protein—is a postwar invention that came into existence as the confluence of several forces of modernity. These forces included a b…

  • Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment (review)

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2007

    Reviewed by: Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment Paul Josephson (bio) Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. By Jacques Leslie . New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005. Pp. 368. $25. In Deep Water, Jacques Leslie, a journalist, offers an account of his visits to dams on river systems in India, South Africa, and Australia. In each setting, he relates his discus…

  • Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (review)

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2005

    Reviewed by: Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution Paul Josephson (bio) Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. By Robert C. Allen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xv+302. $45. Economists, historians, and political scientists have long debated the relative successes of the Soviet industrial revolution. Did Soviet officials succeed in raising industrial produ…

  • The Final Frontier: Science, America, and Terror (review)

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2004

    In The Final Frontier, Dominick Jenkins considers the relationship between science, technology, and warfare. He focuses on the development of chemical weapons and the rise of air power during World War I, especially in the United States, and implicitly and explicitly extends his analysis to the present. This is timely, given the Bush administration's employment of a fearsome arsenal of killing technologies abroad

  • Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film (review)

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome Shapiro exhaustingly investigates the "apocalyptic imagination" in some eight hundred American and Japanese films. He is not interested in these films as consciousness-raising events or as art, but rather in what they reveal of what the bomb means in our imaginations. He remains "stridently and unfashionably" apolitical regarding the morality of the bomb. He argues that "the vast body of films that I call atomic bomb…

  • Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia (review)

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    The end of the cold war has permitted intriguing comparative studies of military technologies in Russia and the United States. In Critical Masses, a collection of authors from Russia and the United States examines citizens' responses to the environmental challenges presented by the world's two major plutonium manufacturing sites: Hanford, Washington, and Chelyabinsk, Russia. Because plutonium production involved new technology and messy operation…

  • Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today

    Eliot A Cohen, Paul Josephson et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2000Cited by: 6

  • Totalitarian Science and Technology

    Guillaume De Syon, Paul Josephson et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1999

    In Totalitarian Science and Technology Paul Josephson considers how physicists, biologists, and engineers have fared in totalitarian regimes. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin relied on scientists and engineers to build the infrastructure of their states. The military power of their regimes was largely based on the discovery of physicists and biologists. They sought to use biology to transform nature, including their citizens, with murderous effect…

  • Stalin's Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture1999

    Reviewed by: Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era * Paul Josephson (bio) Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era. By L. L. Kerber. Edited by Von Hardesty. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xx+394; illustrations, notes, index. $45. Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972) was one of the world’s leading aviation designers. Through a combination of dogged devotion to his craft…

  • New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, The Siberian City of Science

    James H Bater, Paul Josephson et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1998References: 1

    In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this c…

  • The Deceptive Promise of Reform: Ukrainian Science in Crisis

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, Paul R Josephson et al.ARTICLEMinerva1997

  • Atomic-Powered Communism: Nuclear Culture in the Postwar USSR

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLESlavic Review1996Cited by: 12References: 7

    In 1953, just after Stalin's death, the Soviet state machine tool publishing house released A. A. Kanaev's From the Water Wheel to the Atomic Engine (Ot vodianoi mel'nitsy do atomnogo dvigateli). Like other books and articles published in the popular and scientific press in the USSR in this period, From the Water Wheel to the Atomic Engine explored the political, economic, and cultural significance of an incipient "atomic century" and touted the …

  • Maksim Cor'kii, Scienceand the Russian Revolution

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLEThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review1995

  • Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand

    Paul Josephson, Paul R Josephson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

  • Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890-1914

    Paul Josephson, Paul R Josephson et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

  • "Projects of the Century" in Soviet History: Large-Scale Technologies from Lenin to Gorbachev

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture1995Cited by: 11

    En depit des changements sociaux, politiques et economiques des differents regimes sovietiques de Lenin a Gorbatchev, il a toujours existe une relation etroite entre le pouvoir sovietique et le developpement et l'evolution technologiques

  • Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890-1914 by Heather Hogan

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 701 struggle. The “backwardness” of the Choletais by the early 20th cen­ tury was therefore not determined by geography or other structural factors. It was instead primarily influenced by the actions of small producers who, in their efforts to preserve their importance within the local economy, also condemned themselves to a future of poverty, marginalization, and uncertainty. Small producers determined their o…

  • Russian Scientific Institutions: Internationalisation, democracy and dispersion

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLEMinerva1994

  • Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

    Marshall S Shatz, Paul Josephson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1993

  • Science, Philosophy and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union

    Paul Josephson, Paul R Josephson et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1992Cited by: 1

  • Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki . B. I. Kozlov

    Paul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLEIsis1991

  • Chernobyl and Its Aftermath

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, Paul R JosephsonARTICLESlavic Review1991

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