<p><b>A<i> Times Literary Supplement </i>Book of the Year<br><br>A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. <i>In the Midst of Civilized Europe</i> repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.</b><br><br><b>‘Exhaustive, clearly written, deeply researched’ - <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>‘A meticulous, original and deeply affecting historical account’ - Philippe Sands, author of <i>East West Street</i></b><br><br>Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbours with impunity, bu
