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.