Dr Per A. Rudling is an Associate Professor of History and 2019-24 Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Lund University. His book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism (Pittsburgh UP 2014) won the 2015 Kulczycki Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His over 80 articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Canadian Slavonic Papers, East European Politics and Societies, Science in Context, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, The Carl Beck Papers, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yad Vashem Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, East European Jewish Affairs, and Nationalities Papers.

“Tarnished Heroes is the most authoritative account to date of the rise, perversion, resurrection, and perils of Ukrainian nationalism. Starting with the origins and ambivalence of the nationalist ideology in nineteenth-century Ukraine, Rudling’s well-documented study exposes the fascist elements that proliferated in the interwar period and shows how leading figures of that era have come to be venerated by large parts of the population since Ukrainian independence. This is a balanced, forthright, and reliable study that will serve scholars for years to come.” - Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University

Dr Per A. Rudling is an Associate Professor of History and 2019-24 Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Lund University. His book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism (Pittsburgh UP 2014) won the 2015 Kulczycki Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His over 80 articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Canadian Slavonic Papers, East European Politics and Societies, Science in Context, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, The Carl Beck Papers, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yad Vashem Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, East European Jewish Affairs, and Nationalities Papers.

“Tarnished Heroes is the most authoritative account to date of the rise, perversion, resurrection, and perils of Ukrainian nationalism. Starting with the origins and ambivalence of the nationalist ideology in nineteenth-century Ukraine, Rudling’s well-documented study exposes the fascist elements that proliferated in the interwar period and shows how leading figures of that era have come to be venerated by large parts of the population since Ukrainian independence. This is a balanced, forthright, and reliable study that will serve scholars for years to come.” - Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University

Dr Per A. Rudling is an Associate Professor of History and 2019-24 Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Lund University. His book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism (Pittsburgh UP 2014) won the 2015 Kulczycki Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His over 80 articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Canadian Slavonic Papers, East European Politics and Societies, Science in Context, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, The Carl Beck Papers, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yad Vashem Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, East European Jewish Affairs, and Nationalities Papers.

“Tarnished Heroes is the most authoritative account to date of the rise, perversion, resurrection, and perils of Ukrainian nationalism. Starting with the origins and ambivalence of the nationalist ideology in nineteenth-century Ukraine, Rudling’s well-documented study exposes the fascist elements that proliferated in the interwar period and shows how leading figures of that era have come to be venerated by large parts of the population since Ukrainian independence. This is a balanced, forthright, and reliable study that will serve scholars for years to come.” - Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University