Today's guest is Seva Gunitsky, an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He researches how international forces like war and globalization shape democracy and domestic reforms. In this episode of The Russia Guy, we talked about growing up in the U.S. as a Russia immigrant, navigating American biases in Russia analysis, understanding the mafia as an economic response, and much more.Get a copy of Gunitsky's book, “ Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century,” here:https://www.amazon.com/Aftershocks-Domestic-Twentieth-Princeton-International/dp/069117234XAnd follow the man on Twitter here:https://twitter.com/sevautSupport this very podcast here:www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockMusic:Ну погоди, episode 14, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&t=7sОлег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ

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