In this bonus episode, Kristen Ghodsee discusses the surprise hit series Bridgerton with her daughter and the University of Pennsylvania graduate student, Angelina Eimannsberger. According to a Netflix announcement on January 27th, 2021, 85 million households have streamed the series, making it the most streamed series on Netflix in its history.

In this episode, Ghodsee and her guests ask whether Alexandra Kollontai would have loved or hated the show.

This episode has SPOILERS for the series, so please do not listen if you have not completed the first season and you care about such things.  

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Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and a professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.