Russia expert and Maxwell School Professor, Dr. Brian Taylor, headlined the second event of the Strathmore Speaker Series’ Spring 2018 season with a discussion of “Russia, Putin, and “Putinism.”  The event was held on Sunday, April 22nd, at 2 pm at the Onondaga Park Firebarn.

About Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor is Professor and Chair of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Taylor is the author of three books on Russian politics: The Code of Putinism; State Building in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism and Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000. He received his B.A. from the University of Iowa, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.