Per Anders Rudling

Per Anders Rudling
Rudling (on the video screen, right)
Born	(1974-04-11) 11 April 1974 (age 50) Karlstad
Nationality	Swedish-American
Education	Uppsala University, San Diego State University, University of Alberta
Occupation	Academic
Notable work	The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 2014 book

Per Anders Rudling (born 11 April 1974 in Karlstad)[1] is a Swedish-American historian[2] and an associate professor in the Department of History at Lund University (Sweden). He specializes in the areas of nationalism and memory and trauma in Eastern Europe.

Education

Rudling holds a Master of Arts degree in Russian from Uppsala University (1998), a Master of Arts degree in history from San Diego State University (US) (2003), a Ph.D. in history from the University of Alberta (Canada) (2009), and completed a post-doc at the University of Greifswald, Germany.[3]

Career

2013 Rudling was appointed as Associated Professor in History by Lund University.

In summer semester 2015 he was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Eastern European History at University of Vienna.[4] From December 2015 to June 2019, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in History at the National University of Singapore. From July 2019 to June 2021, he was Research Associate at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University in Huddinge with Focus on Belarus.[5][6]

In 2019, Rudling received a five-year scholarship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The Wallenberg scholarship is considered the highest and most prestigious academic award for young researchers in Sweden. The scholarship, worth around 160,000 euros a year, will be used to study Ukrainian "long-distance nationalism" of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, focusing on the formation of a "collective memory" through the Great Famine of 1932-33 and the anti-Soviet resistance in the immediate post-war years.[7][8][9]

Research

Rudling is the author of The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press,[10] devoted to the subject of present-day Belarusian nationalism from its origins until the 1930s.[11] The book won the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies in 2015.[12]

OUN Controversy

Rudling gained 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.[13] The letter was a response to Rudling's public criticism of what he considered a glorification of OUN-B, UPA, Stepan Bandera, and Roman Shukhevych by fellow historian Ruslan Zabily from Ukraine, during his lecture tour in Canada and the United States.[14][15] Rudling delivered a communiqué from Lund to concerned universities, pointing out to the role of OUN-B in the Holocaust in Ukraine and the involvement of UPA in the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.[14] He also wrote about Bandera's antisemitism and political violence during World War II, which led to ethnic cleansing not only of Poles and Jews but also of Ukrainians themselves.[16] In response to the Canadian-Ukrainian complaint about Rudling, a large group of academic researchers published an open letter in support of him.[17]

Bibliography

Books

• Tarnished Heroes: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the Memory Politics of Post-Soviet Ukraine, ibidem, Hannover 2024, ISBN 978-3-8382-0999-9
• The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2015, ISBN 978-0-8229-6308-0
• The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths, The Carl Beck Papers, No 107, 2011, ISSN 0889-275X

Articles

• "The third Generation displaced Persons and new Approaches to the difficult Past" (PDF). Baltic Worlds. 17 (4). 2024.
• "Repatriating an Edifying Past: The Diaspora Ukrainian Authoritarian Right and Power Over Memory, 1991-2021". Nationalities Papers. 52 (6): 1308–1331. doi:10.1017/nps.2024.47.
• "Benderites", "UkroNazis" and "Rashizm": Studying the Historical Ukrainian Far Right in Times of Disinformation and Hybrid Warfare, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2023
• Managing Memory in Post-Soviet Ukraine: From "Scientific Marxism-Leninism" to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, 1991-2019, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2021
• Saving the OUN from a Collaborationist and Possibly Fascist Fate: On the Genealogy of the Discourse of the OUN’s 'Non-Fascism', Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2021
• Long-Distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada 32 page book chapter in Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
• 'Not Quite Klaus Barbie, but in that Category': Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the Past, in: Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays across Disciplines. Goda, N. J. W. (ed.), p. 158-187, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019
• Eugenics and Racial Anthropology in the Ukrainian Radical Nationalist Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2019
• Yushchenko's Fascist: The Bandera Cult in Ukraine and Canada, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 129-178, 2017
• The Cult of Roman Shukhevych in Ukraine: Myth Making with Complications. Fascism.: Volume 5, Issue 1, 2016, ISSN 2211-6249
• Eugenics and Racial Biology in Sweden and the USSR: Contacts Across the Baltic Sea, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 31, Issue 1, 2014
• The Underbelly of Canadian Multiculturalism:, Holocaust Obfuscation and Envy in the Debate about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Holocaust Studies. Volume 20, Issue 3, p. 33-80, 2014
• Memories of 'Holodomor' and National Socialism in Ukrainian political culture, in Bizeul, Y. (ed.): Rekonstruktion des Nationalmythos?: Frankreich, Deutschland und die Ukraine im Vergleich, p. 227-258, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0181-9
• 'The Honor They So Clearly Deserve': Legitimizing the Waffen-SS Galizien, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies Volume 26, Issue 1, 2013
• The Invisible Genocide: The Holocaust in Belarus, in: Bringing to Light the Dark Past, The Reception of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe, (ed.) John-Paul Himka, Joanna Beata Michlic, Nebraska University Press, Lincoln 2023, ISBN 978-0-8032-2544-2
• The Return of the Ukrainian Far Right: The Case of VO Svoboda, in Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson (eds.): Analyzing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Text, Routledge, London and New York, 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-89919-2
• Anti-Semitism and the extreme right in contemporary Ukraine, in: Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe, (ed.) Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin, Brian Jenkins, Routledge, Hoboken 2012
• Terror and Local Collaboration in Occupied Belarus: The case of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Part Two. War Criminality In: Historical Yearbook. Academia Română Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga, Bucharest 2012
• The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 26, Issue 1, Spring 2012, Pages 29–58, [1]
• ‘They Defended Ukraine’: The 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Galizische Nr. 1) Revisited The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Volume 25, 2012 - Issue 3
• Terror and Local Collaboration in Occupied Belarus: The case of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Part One: Background, In: Historical Yearbook. Academia Română Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga, Bucharest 2011
• "Multiculturalism, Memory, and Ritualization: Ukrainian Nationalist Monuments in Edmonton, Alberta. In: . Band 39, Nr. 5, September 2011, S. 733–768, doi:". Nationalities Papers. 39 (5): 733–768. doi:10.1080/00905992.2011.599375.
• "Historical representation of the wartime accounts of the activities of the OUN–UPA (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists—Ukrainian Insurgent Army). In: . Band 36, Nr. 2, 2006, S. 163–189, doi:". East European Jewish Affairs. 36 (2): 163–189. doi:10.1080/13501670600983008.
• "Organized Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Ukraine: Structure, Influence, and Ideology. In: . Band 98, Nr. 1-2, 2006". Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes. 98 (1–2): 81–119. 2006. doi:10.1080/00085006.2006.11092403.

External links

• Official Homepage at Lund University
• Profile at ORCiD
• Profile at academia.edu
• Profile at Google Scholar
• Articles on Defending History

References

1. The Algemeiner, Per Anders Rudling. The Algemeiner Jewish & Israel News. Articles by Per Anders Rudling. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
2. Per Anders Rudling. Lund University, Department of History, Associate Professor. Curriculum Vitae, page 17: Citizenship. Academia.edu. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
3. Jessica Desvarieux (13 March 2014), Part one of a two-part interview with Per Anders Rudling A Socialist in Canada. The Real News Network, transcript of video interview, March 11, 2014.
4. "u:search Per Anders Rudling". ufind.univie.ac.at. 2015. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
5. "Belarus". Södertörns Hogskola (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-12-30.
6. "Authority Records: Rudling, Per Anders". Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet: Södertörns Högskola. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
7. "Three researchers from Lund University become Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2019". Lund University. 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
8. Nils Johan, Tjärnlund (2019). "The growing phenomenon of long-distance nationalism | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation". Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
9. "Congratulations to Dr. Per Anders Rudling!". www.ualberta.ca. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
10. Amazon.com, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Paperback). Book Description. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
11. Per Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 Pitt Russian East European Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. ISBN 0822963086
12. "Past Winners of the Kulczycki (Orbis) Books Prize in Polish Studies | ASEEES". www.aseees.org. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
13. D.H. (11 October 2012), Canadian Missile Lands in Sweden. Defending History, Vol. V, No. 1727. Copies of scanned documents.
14. 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.
15. Per Anders Rudling (12 October 2012), Ukrainian Ultranationalists Sponsor Lecture Tour Across North American Universities. Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine Searchlight Magazine. Northampton University, U.K.
16. Per Anders Rudling (12 October 2012), Ukrainian Ultranationalists Sponsor Lecture Tour Across North American Universities.
17. 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 to authors of defendinghistory.com – has been signed by a number of leading figures of Ukrainian nationalist groups in Canada: full text.