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Also Known As Jacob Leib Talmon
Born June 14, 1916 • Poland
Died June 16, 1980 (aged 64) • Jerusalem • Israel
Subjects Of Study Jacobin Club • Stalinism
Barnave, Antoine
Antoine Barnave
French politician
Roy and Zhores Medvedev
Roy Medvedev
Soviet historian and dissident
Israel Beer
Israeli military analyst
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
American historian and illustrator
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Thucydides manuscript, 3rd century bc (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, P. Hamburg 163).
Thucydides
Greek historian
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Georges Danton
Georges Danton
French revolutionary leader
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
British essayist and historian