Career
Paasivirta became in 1951 associate professor in political history at Helsinki University and was 1965-1983 professor on the subject at the University of Turku. Research professor 1980-1983. Juhani Paasivirta pictures in an illustrative way the Finnish working class movement as part of a European phenomenon, the relations between World War I"s victorious powers and Finland, the Finnish foreign politics administration and foreign policy to 1940.