About the book: 1964 / One hundred years ago, on a January night in 1863, in A national liberation uprising broke out in oppressed Poland. Soon it spread to Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. Armed with hunting rifles and scythes turned into pikes, detachments of peasants and artisans, students and small nobles entered into an unequal battle with the tsarist troops. The powerful voice of Herzen’s “Bell” called for the support of the Poles. The Russian secret revolutionary organization “Land and Freedom” entered into an alliance with Polish revolutionaries. Several hundred Russian soldiers and officers went over to the side of the rebels. The book by Soviet historians tells about the tragic history of the popular uprising of 1863-1864, about the traditions of friendship and joint struggle of the Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian peoples. The reader will be presented with ten portraits of outstanding revolutionaries. democrats, heroes and leaders of the popular uprising; he will be able to learn a lot about dozens of other active participants in the events, about the background and course of the uprising, about the historical era in which it took place.