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Ulrich Schmid

Ulrich Schmid, born in 1965, teaches Russian Culture and History in St. Gallen and works for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In 2010, he published a short biography entitled Leo Tolstoy.

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2022

Eastern Europe between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the War in Ukraine

Does anyone remember the »Common European Home«? Gorbachev’s dream of a Europe stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok? Today, thirty years after the end of the East-West conflict, the rift that separates Russia from its western neighbours is deeper than ever. There is war in Ukraine, state terror in Belarus. Within the EU, fault lines are becoming visible along the old border....

Year of Publication: 2015

Ulrich SchmidYear of Publication: 2015

Technologies of the Soul

Russia’s policy against internal and external »enemies« keeps the world on edge. »We need movies, books, exhibitions, video games, patriotic internet, radio, TV. We have to initiate a counterstrike in this war over souls« – this was posted on a website close to the Kremlin in January 2015.

Political strategists and media...