Lecture Archive

Professor Harvey Goldberg was a model of engaged scholarship at a critical turning point in American history and on UW–Madison’s campus. The Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History is pleased to make his History Department lectures from the 1970s available to the public for the first time. Where recordings are available, simply click on the lecture numbers below to access digitally restored audio and text transcriptions prepared by the HGC. You can also visit the Center’s YouTube channel for a full archive of recordings.

We strive to make transcriptions as faithful as possible to the existing audio with minimal editorial intervention. In some cases, identifying notes for the figures and terms that Goldberg discusses have been added for ease of reference. For feedback and inquiries, 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.

Although audio files from Spring 1971 are unavailable, Goldberg treated many of the same themes in-depth throughout the Spring 1974 semester below.

Lecture 0043 (21 Sept. 1970) — Introduction to the Study of 20th-Century Social Movements
Lecture 0044 (23 Sept. 1970) — Socialists and World War I
Lecture 0045 (25 Sept. 1970) — Marxist Determinism and the Myth of Inevitability
Lecture 0046 (28 Sept. 1970) — The Socialist Party of France and French Syndicalism
Lecture 0047 (30 Sept. 1970) — Pathetic Ambiguity: French Working-Class Anti-War Agitation
Lecture 0048 (2 Oct. 1970) — The Weakness of the SPD
Lecture 0049 (5 Oct. 1970) — Czarist Incentives for War
Lecture 0050 (9 Oct. 1970) — Revolutionary Socialism During World War I
Lecture 0051 (12 Oct. 1970) — The Impact of Internationalism on the Anti-War and Working People’s Movements
Lecture 0052 (14 Oct. 1970) — Anti-War Centrists
Lecture 0053 (19 Oct. 1970) — February 1917
Lecture 0054 (21 Oct. 1970) — 1917: February through July in Russia
Lecture 0055 (23 Oct. 1970) — July 1917: Lenin’s New Strategy
Lecture 0056 (26 Oct. 1970) — October 1917: Bolshevik Defiance
Lecture 0057 (28 Oct. 1970) — Lenin and the Civil War
Lecture 0058 (30 Oct. 1970) — 1921 World Congress
Lecture 0059 (2 Nov. 1970) — The Failure of the German Revolution
Lecture 0060 (4 Nov. 1970) — Germany: November 1918
Lecture 0061 (6 Nov. 1970) — Schism within Europe’s Working Class
Lecture 0062 (9 Nov. 1970) — The Second and Third World Congresses
Lecture 0063 (11 Nov. 1970) — Lenin and His Critics
Lecture 0064 (13 Nov. 1970) — Germany 1921-1923
Lecture 0065 (18 Nov. 1970) — Capitalism’s Anti-Revolutionary Strategies
Lecture 0066 (20 Nov. 1970) — Italy after World War I
Lecture 0067 (23 Nov. 1970) — Mussolini Takes Over
Lecture 0068 (25 Nov. 1970) — White-Collar, Working-Class, and West European Fascism
Lecture 0069 (30 Nov. 1970) — Problems in the USSR
Lecture 0070 (2 Dec. 1970) — The Abandonment of the NEP and the Beginning of Forced Labor
Lecture 0071 (4 Dec. 1970) — Congress of December 1927 and the End of Opposition
Lecture 0072 (7 Dec. 1970) — [Poor audio quality]
Lecture 0073 (9 Dec. 1970) — The 1930s: A Decade of Dehumanization and Illusion
Lecture 0074 (14 Dec. 1970) — The Spread of Nazism
Lecture 0075 (16 Dec. 1970) — National Socialism and the Politics of Fraud
Lecture 0076 (18 Dec. 1970) — The Popular Front and Harvey Goldberg’s Testimony

Lecture 0077 (4 Jan. 1971) — The Spanish Civil War and the French Popular Front: Instructive Failures
Lecture 0078 (8 Jan. 1971) — Popular Front and the French Communists
Lecture 0079 (11 Jan. 1971) — Socialist and Communist Obligations and the Popular Front
Lecture 0080 (13 Jan. 1971) — The Passion of Spain
Lecture 0081 (15 Jan. 1971) — Revolution in Spain?
Lecture 0082 (18 Jan. 1971) — The Disintegration of the Left in Spain
Lecture 0083 (12 Feb. 1971) — The American Policy of Informal Empire
Lecture 0084 (15 Feb. 1971) — American and Soviet Policies of Revolution and Containment
Lecture 0085 (17 Feb. 1971) — The Occupation of Greece
Lecture 0086 (19 Feb. 1971) — Greece in 1944-45
Lecture 0087 (22 Feb. 1971) — Prelude to Civil War
Lecture 0088 (24 Feb. 1971) — Greece, a Révolution Manquée
Lecture 0089 (26 Feb. 1971) — Greece, 1961 to the Present
Lecture 0090 (1 Mar. 1971) — Comparisons between Greece and Laos
Lecture 0091 (3 Mar. 1971) — Fall of France and the Rise of Vichy
Lecture 0092 (5 Mar. 1971) — The U.S. and the Limitations of European Resistance Movements
Lecture 0093 (8 Mar. 1971) — The French Resistance
Lecture 0094 (15 Mar. 1971) — [Poor audio quality]
Lecture 0095 (17 Mar. 1971) — American Power and Post-War France
Lecture 0096 (22 Mar. 1971) — The History of the Vietnamese Resistance
Lecture 0097 (24 Mar. 1971) — The Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Lecture 0098 (29 Mar. 1971) — The Algerian Revolution and the French Withdrawal from Vietnam
Lecture 0099 (31 Mar. 1971) — The Non-Revolutionary Soviet Union
Lecture 0100 (2 Apr. 1971) — Eastern European Popular Democracies, 1945
Lecture 0101 (5 Apr. 1971) — The Death of Stalin and the Crisis of European Communism
Lecture 0102 (7 Apr. 1971) — Understanding Soviet and Eastern European Socialism
Lecture 0103 (18 Apr. 1971) — Introduction to Chinese History
Lecture 0104 (21 Apr. 1971) — The Chinese Revolution: A Counterweight to the Cold War
Lecture 0105 (23 Apr. 1971) — China and Japan at the Turn of the Century
Lecture 0106 (26 Apr. 1971) — China in the 1920s and 1930s
Lecture 0107 (28 Apr. 1971) — Chinese Communism, 1927-1934
Lecture 0108 (30 Apr. 1971) — [Poor audio quality]
Lecture 0109 (3 May 1971) — Advice for Activists
Lecture 0110 (7 May 1971) — [Poor audio quality]
Lecture 0111 (10 May 1971) — France in 1968

Lecture 0001 (16 Jan. 1974) — U.S. Economic Goals after World War II
Lecture 0002 (18 Jan. 1974) — Economic Interests in the Middle East
Lecture 0003 (21 Jan. 1974) — Greek Resistance 1942-1945
Lecture 0004 (23 Jan. 1974) — The Burden of Greek History
Lecture 0005 (25 Jan. 1974) — Greek Resistance Revisited
Lecture 0006 (28 Jan. 1974) — The Greek Civil War
Lecture 0007 (30 Jan. 1974) — The Greek Civil War and the Truman Doctrine
Lecture 0008 (1 Feb. 1974) — Truman Doctrine, cont’d
Lecture 0009 (6 Feb. 1974) — Crisis in France
Lecture 0010 (8 Feb. 1974) — Vichy Regime
Lecture 0011 (11 Feb. 1974) — The U.S. in Post-War France
Lecture 0012 (13 Feb. 1974) — Post-War France
Lecture 0013 (15 Feb. 1974) — Anti-Communist Socialism
Lecture 0014 (18 Feb. 1974) — The French in Vietnam
Lecture 0015 (20 Feb. 1974) — The French in Vietnam, cont’d
Lecture 0016 (22 Feb. 1974) — The Independent Republic of Vietnam and the French
Lecture 0017 (27 Feb. 1974) — The Arms Budget and the European Capitalist Recovery
Lecture 0018 (1 Mar. 1974) — Explorations of Non-American Spaces
Lecture 0019 (4 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe
Lecture 0020 (6 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
Lecture 0021 (8 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
Lecture 0022 (11 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
Lecture 0023 (13 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
Lecture 0024 (15 Mar. 1974) — Eastern Europe, cont’d
Lecture 0025 (18 Mar. 1974) — Chile
Lecture 0026 (20 Mar. 1974) — China
Lecture 0027 (22 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0028 (25 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0029 (27 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0030 (29 Mar. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0031 (1 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0032 (3 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0033 (8 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0034 (10 Apr. 1974) — China, cont’d
Lecture 0035 (22 Apr. 1974) — U.S. Involvement in Algeria
Lecture 0036 (24 Apr. 1974) — Algeria, cont’d
Lecture 0037 (26 Apr. 1974) — Algeria, cont’d
Lecture 0038 (29 Apr. 1974) — Algeria, cont’d
Lecture 0039 (1 May 1974) — Post-Industrial Society
Lecture 0040 (3 May 1974) — “History”
Lecture 0041 (6 May 1974) — Saint-Simon and Feminism
Lecture 0042 (8 May 1974) — Fourier and Feminism

Additional Audio Clips

Audio Clip Transcription (pdf)

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