The Slutsk uprising (Belarusian: Слуцкае паўстанне, romanized: Sluckaje paŭstannie) or the Slutsk defence (Belarusian: Слуцкі збройны чын, romanized: Slucki zbrojny čyn) was an unsuccessful armed attempt to establish an independent Belarus.

Due to the treaty, the demarcation line Kiyevichy-Lan lay in a way that the region of Slutsk, Belarus, stayed in a neutral zone for some time before being taken by the Red Army.

The basis of the Slutsk defence was the local peasantry fighting against the Bolshevist agrarian policy of War communism and supporting the independence of Belarus declared on 25 March 1918.

Only in November 1920, the withdrawing Polish military authorities transferred the civil power to the Belarusian National Committee.

Congress passed a resolution declaring the authority of the government of the Belarusian National Republic and protesting against the Soviet invasion of Belarus.

A decision was made to organize armed resistance against the Bolshevik occupation: The First Belarusian Congress of Słuččyna, formed of 107 persons, salutes the Upper Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and declares that it will give all its powers for the revival of our Fatherland and categorically protests against the occupation of our Fatherland by foreign and impostor Soviet powers.

Long live the independent National Belarusian Republic in its ethnographic borders!A Rada of Słuččyna consisting of 17 people was elected with the chairman Uładzimier Prakulevič.

The military defence action was actively supported by Belarusian nationalists from different regions of Belarus at that time occupied by Polish troops.

Stating that and being the speaker of the will of the people, the Rada of Słuččyna declares that it will stand for the independence of Belarus and protect the interests of the peasantry against violation by foreign invaders.

There were fights near the villages Bystrycy, Vasilčycy, Vierabiejčycy, Daškava, Vasilishki, Lutavičy, Mackievičy, Sadovičy and Morač.

Some of the Belarusian militaries stayed in the region as a partisan Green Army and continued armed resistance against Soviet rule until the 1930s.

During Perestroika, numerous political groups dedicated themselves to publicise a movement that was virtually erased from history during the Soviet time.

In 1948, a monument in honor of Słuck rebels was placed by Belarusian emigrants near Mittenwald, a German city near the Alps.