About the book: 2017 / What is tyranny? Absolute evil from political science textbooks or a natural reaction of society to the social egoism of the ruling elites? What about the elites themselves? The salt of the earth and the flower of society or a complex social parasite that invariably plunges the subordinate society into crises and disasters? The author reflects on this, peering into tyrannical regimes - starting with the older Greek tyrannies and ending with the reign of Ivan the Terrible.