title: Where Is Putinism Leading Russia?
abstract: Where Is Putinism Leading Russia? Mark N. Katz (bio) Brian Taylor's The Code of Putinism is an insightful book that examines the motivations of Vladimir Putin and his associates, describes the means by which they have ruled, assesses how successfully Putinism has been in both the domestic and the foreign policy realms, and analyzes the sustainability of Putinism. Unlike Marxism-Leninism, which was an explicit ideology, Taylor describes Putinism as a mentality, or code, consisting of not just ide
journal: Asia policy