The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
5 hrs. 44 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Gustave Le Bon
Author
Gustave Le Bon
Narrator
Vladimir Avdeyev
Narrator
Vladimir Avdeyev
Description
Gustave Le Bon is a famous French psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist, and historian.
“Despite criticism, Le Bon’s ideas are of interest. He predicted the important role of the crowd in our time… he characterized methods of influencing the crowd, which later leaders like Hitler used—for example, by using simplified slogans.”
Neil J. Smelser
— an outstanding American sociologist, one of the founders of economic sociology as a complete sociological discipline.
“Le Bon’s book ‘The Psychology of Peoples and Masses’ was one of V. I. Lenin’s desktop books.”
B. G. Bazhanov
Personal secretary of Stalin in the 1920s.
“Despite criticism, Le Bon’s ideas are of interest. He predicted the important role of the crowd in our time… he characterized methods of influencing the crowd, which later leaders like Hitler used—for example, by using simplified slogans.”
Neil J. Smelser
— an outstanding American sociologist, one of the founders of economic sociology as a complete sociological discipline.
“Le Bon’s book ‘The Psychology of Peoples and Masses’ was one of V. I. Lenin’s desktop books.”
B. G. Bazhanov
Personal secretary of Stalin in the 1920s.
