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.
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.[7] 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.[8][9] 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.[8] 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.[10] In response to the Canadian-Ukrainian complaint about Rudling, a large group of academic researchers published an open letter in support of him.[11]
^Per Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 Pitt Russian East European Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
ISBN0822963086
^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.