In 1914 Bohr discovered that there exists r is an element of (0, 1) such th
at if a power series converges in the unit disk and its sum has modulus les
s than 1, then for \z\ < r the sum of absolute values of its terms is again
less than 1. Recently analogous results were obtained for functions of sev
eral variables. Our aim here is to present an abstract approach to the prob
lem and show that Bohr's phenomenon occurs under very general conditions.