About the book: 1986 / "Golden Ransom" is a historical adventure novel based on real historical events that took place in Uzbekistan in 1905-1907. The author shows how during the first Russian revolution the consciousness of Uzbek peasants, who were under the yoke of local rulers and tsarist officials, was formed. The main character of the novel, Namaz Pirimkulov, who worked as a farm laborer for local bais, becomes a people's avenger. Local rulers are powerless before Namaz’s squad, assembled by him from people as disadvantaged as he is..