Aleksander Kan

Aleksander Sergeevich Kan was a Russian born historian and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Biography

Aleksander Kan was born in Moscow. During World [War II] he served as an interpreter in the Soviet Army 1944 – 1945.
In the Soviet Union he wrote several books about the history of Scandinavia from a Marxist standpoint. He emigrated with his family to Sweden in 1987 with help from the Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, and became a Swedish citizen in 1992.
He was a member of the Norwegian [Academy of Science and Letters].