stairway to Heaven

They do not give power, they take power - how many times have you heard these words, and how many times you repeated yourself, without thinking about their meaning. Meanwhile, the violent seizure of power in any country is a grave crime, and attempts to “take power” end not on the throne, but on a scaffold. How did it happen that advertising of a criminal and dead end path to it became a common opinion about the authorities, and how do ordinary people actually become people of power? In their book, Khazin and Scheglov offer the reader a completely new interpretation of the essence of power, its main categories and rules, the main of which has always been and remains “silence - gold!”