Revisionism

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Revisionism may refer to:

  • Fictional revisionism, the retelling of a story with substantial alterations in character or environment, to "revise" the view shown in the original work
  • Marxist revisionism, a pejorative term used to describe ideas based on a revision of fundamental Marxist premises
  • Historical revisionism, the critical re-examination of historical facts
  • Historical revisionism (negationism), a particular form of historical revisionism concerned with the denial of facts accepted by mainstream historians
  • Revisionist Zionism, a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement
  • Territorial revisionism, a euphemism for revanchism or irredentism, the desire to recover the territory of a nation lost in war