"If books were sold by the pound, Brian Taylor’s slender, concise volume on Russia under Vladimir Putin would be overpriced," says Aram Bakshian Jr., author of the Washington Times article "Why 'Putinism' may last but can't succeed." "With only 209 pages of actual text, it is a fraction of the length of many windier, weightier academic books that say more while telling us less," he says. "But The Code of Putinism packs more punch to the pound." 09/06/18