Revisionism

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Revisionism may refer to:

• Historical revisionism, the critical re-examination of presumed historical facts and existing historiography
  • The "revisionists" school of thought in Soviet and Communist studies, as opposed to the Cold War "traditionalists" school.
• Historical revisionism (negationism), a particular form of historical revisionism concerned with the denial of claims accepted by mainstream historians
• Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, which questions whether the traditional accounts about Islam's early times are reliable historical sources
• Revisionist Zionism, a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement
• Marxist revisionism, a pejorative term used by some Marxists to describe ideas based on a revision of fundamental Marxist premises
• Fictional revisionism, the retelling of a story with substantial alterations in character or environment, to "revise" the view shown in the original work
• Territorial revisionism, a euphemism for revanchism or irredentism
• Revisionism Theory, another word for Reformism
• The reevaluation of one's experiences with a hindsight bias.

See also

• Anti-revisionism, a concept in communism
• Revision (disambiguation)