Jacob Leib Talmon was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He 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".
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“Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism.”
Source: The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution: The Origins of Ideological Polarization in the 20th Century, (1981), p. 501
