Revisionism

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 negationism, concerted denial of claims accepted by mainstream historians, may purport to be historical revisionism but its methodologies have no basis in historiography/profession of history ** Revisionist school of Islamic studies, which questions whether the traditional accounts about Islam's early times are reliable historical sources * 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 by some Marxists to describe ideas based on a ''revision'' of fundamental Marxist premises * Revisionism (Ireland), an issue in Irish historiography * Revisionism (Spain), a derogatory term used in Spanish historiographic debate * Revisionism theory, another word for reformism * Revisionist Zionism, a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement * Territorial revisionism, a euphemism for revanchism or irredentism * The reevaluation of one's experiences with a hindsight bias Provided by Wikipedia