Per Anders Rudling (born 11 April 1974 in
Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 ...
)
[The Algemeiner]
Per Anders Rudling.
''The Algemeiner'' Jewish & Israel News. Articles by Per Anders Rudling. Retrieved 30 May 2014. is a Swedish-American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
,
[ Per Anders Rudling. Lund University, Department of History, Associate Professor.](_blank)
Curriculum Vitae, page 17: Citizenship. ''Academia.edu''. Retrieved 30 May 2014. an associate professor of the Department of History at
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion [Master of Arts
A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. ...]
degree in Russian from
Uppsala University
Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.
The university rose to significance during ...
(1998), an Master of Arts degree in history from
San Diego State University
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) sy ...
(2003),
Ph.D. in history from the
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherf ...
(Edmonton, Canada) (2009), and
post-doc at
University of Greifswald
The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Po ...
, Germany.
Career
He is the author of ''
The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931'', published by
University of Pittsburgh Press
The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press, part of the University of Pittsburgh. The university and the press are located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
The press ...
,
[Amazon.com]
The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Paperback).
Book Description. Retrieved 30 May 2014. devoted to the subject of present-day
Belarusian nationalism from its origins until the 1930s.
[Per Anders Rudling, ''The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931'' Pitt Russian East European Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. ] The book won the
Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies in 2015.
Rudling became the subject of international attention in October 2012 when a group of Ukrainian organizations in Canada delivered a signed protest to his employer, accusing him of betraying his own university's principles.
[D.H. (11 October 2012)]
Canadian Missile Lands in Sweden.
''Defending History'', Vol. V, No. 1727. Copies of scanned documents. The letter came as a response to Rudling's own public criticism of what he called a glorification of
OUN-B, and the
UPA, as well as
Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera ( uk, Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, Stepán Andríyovych Bandéra, ; pl, Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical, ter ...
, and
Roman Shukhevych by fellow historian Ruslan Zabily from Ukraine in his Canadian and American lecture tour.
[Dr. Per Anders Rudling (3 October 2012)]
Concerning the Zabily Speaking Tour In North America.
''Defending History'', Vol. V, No. 1727. Ruslan Zabily's planned North American lecture tour. Retrieved 30 May 2014.[Per Anders Rudling (12 October 2012)]
Ukrainian Ultranationalists Sponsor Lecture Tour Across North American Universities.
''Searchlight Magazine''. Northampton University, U.K. Rudling delivered a communiqué from Lund to concerned universities pointing out to the role of OUN-B in
the Holocaust in Ukraine
The Holocaust in Ukraine took place in the '' Reichskommissariat Ukraine'', the ''General Government'', the ''Crimean General Government'' and some areas which were located to the East of Reichskommissariat Ukraine (all of those areas were unde ...
and the UPA involvement in the
massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia ( pl, rzeź wołyńska, lit=Volhynian slaughter; uk, Волинська трагедія, lit=Volyn tragedy, translit=Volynska trahediia), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by th ...
.
He also wrote about Bandera's antisemitism and political violence during World War II leading to ethnic cleansing of not only Poles and Jews but also Ukrainians themselves.
[Per Anders Rudling (12 October 2012)]
Ukrainian Ultranationalists Sponsor Lecture Tour Across North American Universities.
/ref> In response to the Canadian-Ukrainian complaint about Rudling, an open letter was published in his support by a large group of academic researchers.[D.H. (21 October 2012)]
Open Letter in Support of Per Anders Rudling.
''Defending History'', Vol. V, No. 1727. Scanned letter from 5 October 2012 which – according t
authors
of defendinghistory.com – has been signed by a number of leading figures of Ukrainian nationalist groups in Canada
full text.
/ref>
Selected academic publications
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Long-Distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada
3''2 page book chapter in ''Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2020''
*
Eugenics and Racial Anthropology in the Ukrainian Radical Nationalist Tradition
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Pres ...
,'' 201
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The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited
' ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies'', Volume 26, Issue 1, Spring 2012, Pages 29–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcs011
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‘They Defended Ukraine’: The 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Galizische Nr. 1) Revisited
' The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
''The Journal of Slavic Military Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles relating to military affairs of Central and Eastern European Slavic nations, including their history and geopolitics, as well as book ...
, Volume 25, 2012 - Issue 3
References
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Living people
21st-century Swedish historians
Swedish male writers
1974 births
Historians of World War II
Uppsala University alumni
San Diego State University alumni
University of Alberta alumni
Scholars of nationalism
Historians of Belarus