Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia , by Timothy Frye, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, xvii + 271 pp., $24.95/£20.00 (cloth) : by Timothy Frye, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, xvii + 271 pp., $24.95/£20.00 (cloth)