Harvey Goldberg Center
Department of History

Lectures

Harvey Goldberg was a model of engaged scholarship at a critical point in American history and on UW–Madison’s campus. The Goldberg Center is pleased to make his lectures from the 1970s available to the public in full. Where recordings are available, simply click on the lecture titles below to access digitally restored audio (mp3 file) and text transcriptions (PDF).

We strive to make transcriptions as faithful as possible to the existing audio with minimal editorial interventions. In some cases, identifying notes for the figures and terms that Goldberg discusses have been added for ease of reference. For feedback or inquiries, feel free to contact us at goldberg@history.wisc.edu.

 

Lectures on Compact Discs

After completing the process of transferring Harvey Goldberg’s lectures from their current audio cassette format onto compact discs, the Goldberg Center has deposited its complete collection of original tapes and CDs, as itemized below, in the Archives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We thank Sidney Iwanter for his generous contribution of tapes from the 1970-1971 academic year.

Fall 1970

  • Lecture No. 0043 (21 Sept. 1970) — Introduction to the Study of 20th-Century Social Movements
  • Lecture No. 0044 (23 Sept. 1970) — Socialists and World War I
  • Lecture No. 0045 (25 Sept. 1970) — Marxist Determinism and the Myth of Inevitability
  • Lecture No. 0046 (28 Sept. 1970) — The Socialist Party of France and French Syndicalism
  • Lecture No. 0047 (30 Sept. 1970) — Pathetic Ambiguity: French Working-Class Anti-War Agitation
  • Lecture No. 0048 (2 Oct. 1970) — The Weakness of the SPD
  • Lecture No. 0049 (5 Oct. 1970) — Czarist Incentives for War
  • Lecture No. 0050 (9 Oct. 1970) — Revolutionary Socialism During World War I
  • Lecture No. 0051 (12 Oct. 1970) — The Impact of Internationalism on the Anti-War and Working People’s Movements
  • Lecture No. 0052 (14 Oct. 1970) — Anti-War Centrists
  • Lecture No. 0053 (19 Oct. 1970) — February 1917
  • Lecture No. 0054 (21 Oct. 1970) — 1917: February through July in Russia
  • Lecture No. 0055 (23 Oct. 1970) — July 1917: Lenin’s New Strategy
  • Lecture No. 0056 (26 Oct. 1970) — October 1917: Bolshevik Defiance
  • Lecture No. 0057 (28 Oct. 1970) — Lenin and the Civil War
  • Lecture No. 0058 (30 Oct. 1970) — 1921 World Congress (Includes extended comments on the war in Vietnam)
  • Lecture No. 0059 (2 Nov. 1970) — The Failure of the German Revolution
  • Lecture No. 0060 (4 Nov. 1970) — Germany: November 1918
  • Lecture No. 0061 (6 Nov. 1970) — Schism within Europe’s Working Class
  • Lecture No. 0062 (9 Nov. 1970) — The Second and Third World Congresses
  • Lecture No. 0063 (11 Nov. 1970) — Lenin and His Critics
  • Lecture No. 0064 (13 Nov. 1970) — Germany 1921-1923
  • Lecture No. 0065 (18 Nov. 1970) — Capitalism’s Anti-Revolutionary Strategies
  • Lecture No. 0066 (20 Nov. 1970) — Italy after World War I
  • Lecture No. 0067 (23 Nov. 1970) — Mussolini Takes Over
  • Lecture No. 0068 (25 Nov. 1970) — White Collar Working Class and West European Fascism
  • Lecture No. 0069 (30 Nov. 1970) — Problems in the USSR
  • Lecture No. 0070 (2 Dec. 1970) — The Abandonment of the NEP and the Beginning of Forced Labor
  • Lecture No. 0071 (4 Dec. 1970) — Congress of December 1927 and the End of Opposition
  • Lecture No. 0072 (7 Dec. 1970) — [Poor audio quality]
  • Lecture No. 0073 (9 Dec. 1970) — The 1930s: A Decade of Dehumanization and Illusion
  • Lecture No. 0074 (14 Dec. 1970) — The Spread of Nazism
  • Lecture No. 0075 (16 Dec. 1970) — National Socialism and the Politics of Fraud
  • Lecture No. 0076 (18 Dec. 1970) — The Popular Front and Harvey Goldberg’s Testimony

Spring 1971

  • Lecture No. 0077 (4 Jan. 1971) — The Spanish Civil War and the French Popular Front: Instructive Failures
  • Lecture No. 0078 (8 Jan. 1971) — Popular Front and the French Communists
  • Lecture No. 0079 (11 Jan. 1971) — Socialist and Communist Obligations and the Popular Front
  • Lecture No. 0080 (13 Jan. 1971) — The Passion of Spain
  • Lecture No. 0081 (15 Jan. 1971) — Revolution in Spain?
  • Lecture No. 0082 (18 Jan. 1971) — The Disintegration of the Left in Spain
  • Lecture No. 0083 (12 Feb. 1971) — The American Policy of Informal Empire
  • Lecture No. 0084 (15 Feb. 1971) — American and Soviet Policies of Revolution and Containment
  • Lecture No. 0085 (17 Feb. 1971) — The Occupation of Greece
  • Lecture No. 0086 (19 Feb. 1971) — Greece in 1944-45
  • Lecture No. 0087 (22 Feb. 1971) — Prelude to Civil War
  • Lecture No. 0088 (24 Feb. 1971) — Greece, a Revolution Manqué
  • Lecture No. 0089 (26 Feb. 1971) — Greece, 1961 to the Present
  • Lecture No. 0090 (1 Mar. 1971) — Comparisons between Greece and Laos
  • Lecture No. 0091 (3 Mar. 1971) — Fall of France and the Rise of Vichy
  • Lecture No. 0092 (5 Mar. 1971) — The U.S. and the Limitations of European Resistance Movements
  • Lecture No. 0093 (8 Mar. 1971) — The French Resistance
  • Lecture No. 0094 (15 Mar. 1971) — [Poor audio quality]
  • Lecture No. 0095 (17 Mar. 1971) — American Power and Post-War France
  • Lecture No. 0096 (22 Mar. 1971) — The History of the Vietnamese Resistance
  • Lecture No. 0097 (24 Mar. 1971) — The Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Lecture No. 0098 (29 Mar. 1971) — The Algerian Revolution and the French Withdrawal from Vietnam
  • Lecture No. 0099 (31 Mar. 1971) — The Non-Revolutionary Soviet Union
  • Lecture No. 0100 (2 Apr. 1971) — Eastern European Popular Democracies, 1945
  • Lecture No. 0101 (5 Apr. 1971) — The Death of Stalin and the Crisis of European Communism
  • Lecture No. 0102 (7 Apr. 1971) — Understanding Soviet and Eastern European Socialism
  • Lecture No. 0103 (18 Apr. 1971) — Introduction to Chinese History
  • Lecture No. 0104 (21 Apr. 1971) — The Chinese Revolution: A Counterweight to the Cold War
  • Lecture No. 0105 (23 Apr. 1971) — China and Japan at the Turn of the Century
  • Lecture No. 0106 (26 Apr. 1971) — China in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Lecture No. 0107 (28 Apr. 1971) — Chinese Communism, 1927-1934
  • Lecture No. 0108 (30 Apr. 1971) — [Poor audio quality]
  • Lecture No. 0109 (3 May 1971) — Advice for Activists
  • Lecture No. 0110 (7 May 1971) — [Poor audio quality]
  • Lecture No. 0111 (10 May 1971) — France in 1968

Spring 1974

  • Lecture No. 0001 (16 Jan. 1974) — U.S. Economic Goals after World War II
  • Lecture No. 0002 (18 Jan. 1974) — Greek Resistance 1942-1945
  • Lecture No. 0003 (21 Jan. 1974) — Economic Interests in the Middle East
  • Lecture No. 0004 (23 Jan. 1974) — The Burden of Greek History
  • Lecture No. 0005 (25 Jan. 1974) — Greek Resistance Revisited
  • Lecture No. 0006 (28 Jan. 1974) — The Greek Civil War
  • Lecture No. 0007 (30 Jan. 1974) — The Greek Civil War and the Truman Doctrine
  • Lecture No. 0008 (1 Feb. 1974) — Truman Doctrine, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0009 (6 Feb. 1974) — Crisis in France
  • Lecture No. 0010 (8 Feb. 1974) — Vichy Regime
  • Lecture No. 0011 (11 Feb. 1974) — The U.S. in Post-War France
  • Lecture No. 0012 (13 Feb. 1974) — Post-War France
  • Lecture No. 0013 (15 Feb. 1974) — Anti-Communist Socialism
  • Lecture No. 0014 (18 Feb. 1974) — The French in Vietnam
  • Lecture No. 0015 (20 Feb. 1974) — The French in Vietnam, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0016 (22 Feb. 1974) — The Independent Republic of Vietnam and the French
  • Lecture No. 0017 (27 Feb. 1974) — The Arms Budget and the European Capitalist Recovery
  • Lecture No. 0018 (1 Mar. 1974) — Explorations of Non-American Spaces
  • Lecture No. 0019 (4 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe
  • Lecture No. 0020 (6 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0021 (8 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0022 (11 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0023 (13 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0024 (15 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0025 (18 Mar. 1974) — Chile
  • Lecture No. 0026 (20 Mar. 1974) — China
  • Lecture No. 0027 (22 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0028 (25 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0029 (27 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0030 (29 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0031 (1 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0032 (3 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0033 (8 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0034 (10 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0035 (22 Apr. 1974) — U.S. Involvement in Algeria
  • Lecture No. 0036 (24 Apr. 1974) — Algeria, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0037 (26 Apr. 1974) — Algeria, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0038 (29 Mar. 1974) — Algeria, cont’d
  • Lecture No. 0039 (1 May 1974) — Post-Industrial Society
  • Lecture No. 0040 (3 May 1974) — “History”

Additional Lectures

  • Lecture No. 0041 (no date) — Saint-Simon and Feminism
  • Lecture No. 0042 (no date) — Fourier and Feminism

 

Other Audio Clips

Audio Clip Transcription (pdf)

  • The Radicalization of the Consciousness: 18 January 1971 (mp3)
  • Rosa Luxembourg and Women’s Liberation: 2 October 1970 (mp3)
  • The Folly of the American Commune Movement: 2 October 1970 (mp3)
  • Claptrap of Modern Political Scientists: 21 May 1971 (mp3)
  • Political Hypocrisy: 27 May 1971 (mp3)
  • Responsibility of the Role of Student and Intellectual: 27 May 1971 (mp3)
  • Description of Pétain: 6 February 1974 (mp3)
  • The Mythology that Created the Cold War: 11 February 1974 (mp3)
  • IBM Knows Too Much: 27 February 1974 (mp3)
  • Postwar Consumer Society in France: 27 February 1974 (mp3)
  • Oil: 21 January 1974 (mp3)
  • Dignity in Eastern Europe: 4 March 1974 (mp3)
  • May 1968 and Karl Marx: 1 May 1974 (mp3)
  • Historian of the Usable Past: 3 May 1974 (mp3)
  • The History of Other Peoples: 16 January 1974 (mp3)