What is "revisionist"

Usage examples of "revisionist".

William Perl, the prime organiser of the Revisionist effort, doubles that figure to more than 40,000.

The Revisionists, who fought for retrial, saw France as the fount of liberty, the country of light, the teacher of reason, the codifier of law, and to them the knowledge that she could have perpetrated a wrong and connived at a miscarriage of justice was insufferable.

During the period of severe disorientation, women the world over were taking the opportunity to beat down the revisionist male supremist pigs.

She answered sharply that she was neither dogmatist nor revisionist nor sectarian nor deviationist, that those were all words of ours, that we had invented them, that they belonged to us, and that they were completely alien to them.

The pre-Clearance Highlands supported a stable if never large population, although it was growing by 1800, and revisionist historians argue that, if the Clearances had not occurred, the land could never have supported the increased numbers.

Then Podgorny and the revisionists staged their coup and took control of most of the Red Army in the west.

Says Gao Yuan, they uncovered "hooligans and bad eggs, filthy rich peasants and son-of-a-bitch landlords, bloodsucking capitalists and neobourgeoisie, historical counterrevolutionaries and active counterrevolutionaries, rightists and ultrarightists, alien class elements and degenerate elements, reactionaries and opportunists, counterrevolutionary revisionists, imperialist running dogs, and spies.

And I don't want you to go thinking that we can expose and repudiate the revisionist and eclecticist historico-ideologues of the ruling classes just by arranging strikes and forming into unions, because the trade-unionist politics of the working class is nothing more than precisely a petit-bourgeois politics of the working class.

Evolutionary Anthropology 3:174-84 (1995), discusses the revisionist view, based on accelerator mass spectrometry dating of very small plant samples, that the origins of agriculture in the Americas were much more recent than previously believed.

And when they bring out their revisionist books, it goddam well alters the state of knowledge!

Further, the power of the camera and the film-maker allows history - that is, collective memory - to be remade at the behest of a Big Brother with a memory hole, a revisionist holocaust historian, or a minister of education with a belief in the importance of not forgetting 1066.

And we had radical nocturnalism and revolutionary hotel-lobby restructuralism, and a revisionist humanist wing with no furniture, and the inevitable backroom lobby filled with cigar smoke, for the disabled.