revisionism
noun/ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/
Etymology From revision + -ism.
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Historiography, History, Human sciences, Sciences The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
- Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.2018 October 8, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in The Guardian:
- As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
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- Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest the new revisionism.2022 January 29, Jan Grabowski, “The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2022:
- Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.”2023 August 29, Ezra Klein, “It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
- For inspiration, they [Orbán’s fellow anti-liberal counterrevolutionaries] look to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, whose national chauvinism, banning of “gender ideology” and “gay propaganda,” and revisionism against the world order fit well with their agenda.2025 March 19, Arash Azizi, “A Battle for the Soul of the West”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
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Marxism, Derogatory An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
- Derived terms
- antirevisionism, crypto-revisionism
- Related terms
- denialism, negationism