Marvin Perry is a retired Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including Western Civilization: A Brief History; Sources of the Western Tradition, the leading Western Civilization reader; and Sources of Twentieth-Century Europe. He is also co-author of The Humanities in the Western Tradition. Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on anti-Semitism and Judeo-Christian relations; his primary interests include modern European history and the history of ideas.

Matthew Berg is Professor of History at John Carroll University, where he teaches courses in modern European history with a particular focus on Germany, international human rights issues, and genocide. He has published widely in the field of postwar reconstruction, political culture, and memory of the Nazi past in Austria, and his ongoing research focuses on politics, the experience of occupation, and everyday life in Vienna's social democratic milieu during the initial years after 1945.

James Krukones is Associate Academic Vice President and Associate Professor of History at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He is the author of To the People: The Russian Government and the Newspaper Sel'skii vestnik "Village Herald," 1881-1917 (Garland, 1988). His articles and reviews have appeared in publications such as the American Historical Review, Slavic Review, Film & History, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Dr. Krukones' teaching areas include Russia, Eastern Europe, and history on film. For the last several years his research has focused on Soviet film and its distribution in the U.S.

This reader uses primary sources to illuminate the intellectual, political, and cultural history of Europe from 1900 century to the present.