Jacob Leib Talmon

Jacob Leib Talmon (Hebrew: יעקב טלמון; 14 June 1916 – 16 June 1980) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Talmon studied the genealogy of totalitarianism, arguing that political Messianism stemmed from the French Revolution, and stressed the similarities between Jacobinism and Stalinism. He coined the terms "totalitarian democracy" and "Messianic democracy/political Messianism".