Department of History
Eastern Europe, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on Soviet policy in the Eastern Bloc. Covers attempts at reform in Hungary and Poland following the death of Stalin in 1953, as well as the alternate path to socialism charted by Tito’s Yugoslavia. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Eastern Europe, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on Soviet policy in the Eastern Bloc. Covers the establishment of the Cominform and the relationship of Western Communist parties to the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Eastern Europe, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on Soviet policy in the Eastern Bloc. Covers the establishment of Communism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Eastern Europe Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on Soviet policy in the Eastern Bloc. Covers the Red Army in Poland and the Communist-led resistance movement in Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Explorations of Non-American Spaces Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on the origins of the Eastern Bloc from the interwar period through Communist-led resistance movements in the Second World War. Covers Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
The Arms Budget and the European Capitalist Recovery Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on postwar economic recovery in Europe and the role of the American arms industry. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
The Independent Republic of Vietnam and the French Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on the Vietnamese declaration of independence under Ho Chi Minh and the opening of French hostilities in the First Indochina War (1945-54). Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
The French in Vietnam, cont’d Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on French imperialism in Southeast Asia. Covers France’s colonial policy, the Japanese occupation of French Indochina during World War II, and the origins of Vietnamese independence under Ho Chi Minh. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
The French in Vietnam Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on the origins of French imperialism in Southeast Asia. Covers France’s colonization of Vietnam in the mid-nineteenth century and the everyday experience of colonial rule in French Indochina. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
Anti-Communist Socialism Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on the rivalry between Communist and Socialist politicians in the French provisional government and postwar France’s place in American foreign policy against the Soviet Union. Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.