revisionism

English

revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)

(historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
- 2018, Anne Perkins, A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’ in the Guardian.
  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.
(Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.

advocacy of a revision of some view

Greek: αναθεωρητισμός (el) m (anatheoritismós), ρεβιζιονισμός (el) m (revizionismós)
Japanese: 修正主義 (しゅうせいしゅぎ, shūseishugi)
Korean: 수정주의 (sujeongjuui)
Polish: rewizjonizm m
Portuguese: revisionismo (pt) m
Russian: ревизиони́зм (ru) m (revizionízm)
Spanish: revisionismo m

form of Marxism

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