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Nationality
  
German, Polish

Occupation
  
Historian

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe
Born
  
1979
Zabrze, Poland

Education
  
Viadrina European University, University of Hamburg

Known for
  
study of Nationalism, World War II, Holocaust, Fascism, Eastern Europe

Name
  
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe (born 1979 in Zabrze, Poland as Grzegorz Rossolinski) – is a German-Polish historian based in Berlin, associated with the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute of the Free University of Berlin. He specializes in the history of the Holocaust and East-Central Europe, fascism, nationalism, the history of antisemitism, the history of the Soviet Union, and the politics of memory.

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Career

Rossolinski-Liebe studied cultural history and East European history at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1999 to 2005. He worked on his doctoral dissertation about Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists at the University of Alberta and the University of Hamburg from 2007, and defended his PhD at the University of Hamburg in June 2012. Between 2012 and 2014, he worked on a post-doctoral project at the Free University of Berlin on the Ukrainian diasporic memory of the Holocaust. He also worked as a research assistant at the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. He is the author of Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult, a scholarly biography of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, and an in-depth study of his political cult.

Political reactions

Rossolinski-Liebe was invited in late February and early March 2012 by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the German embassy in Kiev, to deliver six lectures about Bandera in three Ukrainian cities. The lectures were scheduled to take place in February and March 2012 in Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kiev. The organizers, however, were unable to find a suitable venue in Lviv, and also, three of the four lectures in Dnipropetrovsk and Kiev were canceled a few hours prior to the event. The only lecture took place in the German embassy in Kiev, under the protection of police. In front of the building, approximately one hundred protesters, including members of the radical-right Svoboda party, tried to convince a few hundred interested students, scholars, and ordinary Ukrainians not to attend the presentation, claiming that Rossolinski-Liebe was "Joseph Goebbels' grandchild" and a "liberal fascist from Berlin." In response to the harassment of his lectures and the threats made towards him during his lecture trip in Ukraine, the petition "For Freedom of Speech and Expression in Ukraine" was signed by 97 persons, including scholars including Etienne Francois, Alexandr Kruglov, Gertrud Pickhan, Susanne Heim, Alexander Woll, Dovid Katz, Delphine Bechtel, Per Anders Rudling, and Mark von Hagen.

Publications

  • The Fascist Kernel of Ukrainian Genocidal Nationalism, The Carl Beck Papers in Russian & East European Studies, Number 2402. Pittsburgh: The Center for Russian and East European Studies, 2015.
  • Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press 2014, ISBN 978-3-8382-0604-2
  • “Erinnerungslucke Holocaust. Die ukrainische Diaspora und der Genozid an den Juden,” Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte vol. 62, no. 2 (2014): 397–430.
  • “Der Verlauf und die Tater des Lemberger Pogroms vom Sommer 1941. Zum aktuellen Stand der Forschung,“ Jahrbuch fur Antisemitismusforschung 22 (2013): 207–243.
  • “Debating, Obfuscating and Disciplining the Holocaust: Post-Soviet Historical Discourses on the OUN-UPA and other Nationalist Movements,” East European Jewish Affairs vol. 42, no. 3 (2012): 199–241.
  • “The ‘Ukrainian National Revolution’ of 1941. Discourse and Practice of a Fascist Movement,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History vol. 12, no. 1 (2011): 83–114.
  • “Celebrating Fascism and War Criminality in Edmonton. The Political Myth and Cult of Stepan Bandera in Multicultural Canada,” Kakanien Revisited 12 (2010): 1–16.
  • “Der polnisch-ukrainische Historikerdiskurs uber den polnisch-ukrainischen Konflikt 1943-1947,“ Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 57 (2009): 54–85.
  • “Die Stadt Lemberg in den Schichten ihrer politischen Denkmaler,“ ece-urban (The Online Publications Series of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe), No. 6, Lviv, October 2009. (Ukrainian translation)
  • “Umbenennungen in der Ziemia Lubuska nach 1945,“ in Terra Transoderana: zwischen Neumark und Ziemia Lubuska, ed. Bernd Vogenbeck (Berlin: Bebra 2008): 59–68.
  • “Der Raum der Stadt Lemberg in den Schichten seiner politischen Denkmaler,“ Kakanien Revisited 12 (2009): 1–21.
  • “Bandera und Nikifor – zwei Modernen in einer Stadt. Die ‘nationalburgerliche‘ und die ‘weltburgerliche‘ Moderne in Lemberg,“ in Eine neue Gesellschaft in einer alten Stadt, ed. Lutz Henke, Grzegorz Rossolinski, and Philipp Ther (Wroclaw: ATUT, 2007): 109–124.

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