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The Psychology of Crowds by the famous French psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist and historian Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was published in 1895, but is still relevant today. It has become a branch of social psychology that studies the patterns of behaviour and activities of people in social groups.

It was Le Bon who first formulated the laws of behaviour of an organised crowd. We are talking about sudden social changes caused by the actions of large groups of people. The author tried to show the commonalities between the state of affairs and the regularities in the psychology of the masses. Religion as a way of influencing the masses, the impact of propaganda on the mood of the crowd, ways of instilling any ideas, even harmful and destructive ones, in the masses - these are just some of the brilliant and at the same time cynical insights of Gustave Le Bon. He foresaw the important role of the crowd in "our time" and described the methods of influencing it.