Paul Josephson

Biographic Data

ID981529
NAMEPaul Josephson
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEJosephson
SIGNATUREJOSEPHSON P
AFFILIATIONSColby College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Sovetskii Atomnyi Proekt: Opyt Kadrovogo Obespecheniia, by N.V. Mel’nikova

    Paul JosephsonARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2025

  • Loren Raymond Graham

    Open AccessPaul JosephsonARTICLESlavic Review2025

  • Toward a Global History of the Nuclear Age

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, Paul Robert Josephson et al.ARTICLEEsboços histórias em contextos…2024

    The environmental history of the nuclear enterprise has grown increasingly important, not the least because of the strong conviction that an ongoing, and self-proclaimed “renaissance” in nuclear energy must be a major part of world energy scenarios in the battle against global warming and the need to abandon carbon-based energy production. This article suggests a number of ways to take advantage of the recently available primary sources by using …

  • 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…

  • Atoms for Peace in the 1950s: Lessons from the Spread of Nuclear Technology in the Early Cold War

    Paul JosephsonARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2023

    The articles in this special issue shed light on the influence of the Eisenhower administration's “Atoms for Peace” proposal on the civilian nuclear programs of five European countries, including Italy and France, which were member-states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Hungary and Czechoslovakia, which were part of the USSR's Communist bloc; and Spain, which did not become a member of NATO until nearly three decades later. Base…

  • Women, Reactors, and Nuclear Weapons: From Revolutionary Liberation to the "Miss Atom" Pageant in (Post-)Soviet Russia

    Tatiana Kasperski, Paul JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2023

    This article considers the Soviet Union's successful efforts to employ more women specialists in nuclear science and technology, from the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and the Soviet atomic bomb project to the Cold War and the present. Despite their contributions to building a Cold War military machine, women rarely reached the pinnacle of the scientific enterprise due to persistent views about their lesser capabilities as specialists. After the c…

  • 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 …

  • Janet M. HARTLEY, The Volga. A History of Russia’s Greatest River

    Paul JosephsonARTICLECahiers du monde russe2021

    The longest river in Europe, the Volga, flows 3,500 km through central Russia into the Caspian Sea. In this socio-economic history, Janet Hartley analyzes the development of Russia and the peoples who lived in the Volga basin over one-thousand years, their trade, transport, agricultural and other economic activities, and also the politics and culture of the settlement of the Volga basin. Hartley's book consists of four parts: a shorter introducti…

  • Eloge: Eduard Izrailevich Kolchinskii (1944-2020)

    Douglas R Weiner, Lloyd Ackert et al.ARTICLEIsis2020

  • Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It by Harry Collins, Robert Evans, and Christopher Higgins

    Paul JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2019

    Reviewed by: Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It by Harry Collins, Robert Evans, and Christopher Higgins Paul Josephson (bio) Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It. By Harry Collins, Robert Evans, and Christopher Higgins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 296. Hardcover $26.95. I love to watch sports and still listen on the radio. I grew up in Pittsburgh, the home of the firs…

  • Stalin's water workers and their heritage: Industrialising nature in Russia, 1950 - present

    Open AccessPaul JosephsonARTICLEGlobal Environment2017Cited by: 2

    A surprising degree of continuity between engineering programs exists in the former Soviet Union from the late Stalin period to the present. While engineering organisations and institutions have changed their names, they have maintained a great deal of 'technological momentum' in their pursuit of the 'industrialisation of nature'. Massive nature transformation projects served multiple purposes, not only technical and economic, but social and educ…

  • Physics moves to the provinces: The Siberian physics community and Soviet power, 1917–1940

    Open AccessPaul Josephson, ALEKSANDR SOROKIN et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2017References: 13

    The rich tradition of Siberian science and higher education is little known outside Russian academic circles. Using institutional history, this article focuses on the founding and pre-war period of the Siberian Physical Technical Institute, the establishment of its research focus and its first difficult steps to become a leading centre of R & D in Siberia. Based on archival materials, the article describes how local and national physicists justif…

  • Russia, State Capitalism and Arctic Degradation

    Open AccessPaul JosephsonARTICLEGlobal Environment2016

    The leaders of the USSR actively pursued Arctic exploration, settlement and resource exploitation. Working with scientists, engineers, settlers and local people, and using gulag labourers, they created the most urban Arctic environment in the world that focused on extractive industries – oil, gas, nickel, platinum, coal and others. Owing to a centrally-planned economy, forced settlement and unwavering determination to harness resources, they face…

  • Kinga Pozniak, Nowa Huta. Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town

    Paul JosephsonARTICLECahiers du monde russe2016

    Communist leaders in East Central Europe sought to create socialism in part along the path set in the USSR under Stalin. To one degree or another, they centralized planning, pursued heavy industry, collectivized agriculture, purged untrustworthy officials and intellectuals, and rebuilt scientific, educational, and other institutions. They also rebuilt cities—and built cities anew. One such effort was the creation of mono‐profile industrial center…

  • Michael G. Smith. Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight

    Paul JosephsonARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    In Rockets and Revolution:A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight, Michael G. Smith provides an intriguing cultural history of the early space age with a focus on Russia and the Soviet Union. In ten chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion, Smith surveys space history for the first half of the twentieth century. He uses a wide array of primary sources in his analysis: scientific tracts, articles, and other publications, popular science journal…

  • Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space by Slava Gerovitch

    Paul JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2016

    Reviewed by: Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space by Slava Gerovitch Paul Josephson (bio) Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space. By Slava Gerovitch. New York. Palgrave MacMillan. 2014. Pp. 305. $95. Slava Gerovitch, who has worked on the history of manned space exploration for several years, has published a fascinating pr…

  • Rivers, Memory and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers by Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted

    Paul JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2016

    Reviewed by: Rivers, Memory and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers by Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted Paul Josephson (bio) Rivers, Memory and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers. By Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. Pp. xiii+ 189. $95. In this well-written, thoughtful, and engaging study, Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted writes about the symbolic, cultural, political, and other meani…

  • 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

  • David Moon, The Plough That Broke the Steppe: Agriculture and Environment on Russia’s Grasslands, 1700–1914

    Open AccessPaul JosephsonARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2014

  • Science and Technology in the International Arena

    Paul JosephsonARTICLEDiplomatic History2013

    Science and technology (S and T) play a central role in international relations through technology transfer, in treaty negotiation, and in promotion of commerce. This connection between S and T and foreign policy has grown more obvious since the Manhattan Project. Many of the issues that confront policy makers concern S and T, whether fears over the “technological breakthrough” of the adversary, verifiability of treaties, or the use S and T in fo…

  • Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia (review)

    Paul JosephsonARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    Reviewed by: Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia Paul Josephson (bio) Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia. By Marshall Goldman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 256. $16.95. In Petrostate Marshall Goldman discusses the high politics of the oil and gas industry in Russia (and the USSR) over the past 100 years. He focuses on the post-Soviet era in five of seven chapters. Goldman, a leading specialist [End Page 855] on …

  • Technology and the Conquest of the Soviet Arctic

    Open AccessPaul JosephsonARTICLEThe Russian Review2011Cited by: 1

  • Environmental Histories of the Cold War

    Open AccessJohn Mcneill, Paul Josephson et al.BOOKEnvironmental Histories of the…2010

    Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history entirely overlooks this rise of environmentalism and th…

  • Russian Roads and Railroads: Introduction

    Open AccessPaul JosephsonARTICLEThe Journal of Transport History2008

  • 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…