Revisionism

Revisionism is a word which has several meanings.

Among historians, revisionism has traditionally been used in a completely neutral sense to describe the work or ideas of a historian who has revised a previously accepted view of a particular topic. This usage has declined in popular discourse because of the way the word has come to be used in recent years.
Today the word revisionism has come to refer to historical revisionism, such as attempts by some historians and pseudo-historians to rewrite the history of the Jewish Holocaust so as to suggest either that it never happened or that it has been greatly exaggerated (see Holocaust denial). The best known of such writers is David Irving.
In the history of socialism, the word revisionist was used in the late 19th century to describe those writers, such as Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky, who sought to revise the teachings of Karl Marx, mainly on the issue of whether a violent revolution was necessary to achieve socialism.
In the 1940s and 1950s within the international Communist movement, revisionism was used to describe Communists who focused on consumer goods production instead of heavy industry, accepted national differences and encouraged democratic reforms. Revisionism was one of the charges leveled at national communists or Titoists in a series of purges beginning in 1949 in Eastern Europe. After Stalin's death revisionism became briefly acceptable in Hungary during Imre Nagy's government (1953-1955) and in Poland during Wladyslaw Gomulka's government, although neither Nagy nor Gomulka described themselves as revisionists.
Following the Soviet repression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, many people, particularly intellectuals, resigned from western Communist parties in protest. They were sometimes accused of revisionism by "loyalist" Communists. E. P. Thompson's New Reasoner was an example of this revisionism. This movement eventually became known as the New Left.
In the early 1960s, Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China revived the term revisionism to attack Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union over various ideological and political issues, as part of the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese routinely described the Soviets as "modern revisionists" through the 1960s. This usage was copied by the various Maoist groups that split off from Communist parties around the world.
In the history of Zionism, revisionism was the name used to describe the ideas of Vladimir Jabotinsky, who was accused of revising the tenets of Zionism as set down by its founder Theodore Herzl. Eventually Jabotisnky and his followers adopted the term and called themselves Revisionists (with a capital R). Today's Likud party is a direct descendant of the Revisionists.

Modern Usage: Revisionism

Commercial Usage: Revisionism

Domain	Title
Books	Best witness : the Mel Mermelstein affair and the triumph of historical revisionism (reference) Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism (reference) Reformism and Revisionism in Africa's Political Economy in the 1990s: The Dialectics of Adjustment (reference) Revisionism Essays on the History of Marcist Ideas (reference) Revisionism, a Key to Peace and Other Essays (Cato Paper : No. 12) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Revisionism

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Modern Translations: Revisionism

Language		Translations for "revisionism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		revizionizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏التعديلية. (various references)

Bulgarian		ревизионизъм. (various references)

Chinese		修正主义. (various references)

Czech		revizionismus. (various references)

French		révisionnisme. (various references)

Greek		αναθεωρητισμόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		revizionizmus. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		修正主義 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうせいしゅぎ. (various references)

Pig Latin		evisionismray

Romanian		revizionism. (various references)

Russian		ревизионизм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		revizionizam. (various references)

Swedish		revisionism. (various references)

Turkish		saptırımcılık. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Revisionism

Rhyming with "Revisionism"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "revisionism" (pronounced rēvi"zhuni'zum)
7	-zh u n i' z u m	illusionism.
6	-u n i' z u m	abolitionism, agrarianism, anachronism, antagonism, authoritarianism, chauvinism, communism, creationism, determinism, egalitarianism, expansionism, expressionism, feminism, hedonism, hooliganism, humanism, impressionism, interventionism, isolationism, lesbianism, mechanism, microorganism, obstructionism, organism, paganism, parkinsonism, perfectionism, protectionism, puritanism, republicanism, satanism, sectarianism, tokenism, totalitarianism, unionism, vegetarianism.
5	-n i' z u m	modernism, monism, opportunism.
4	-i' z u m	absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, aneurism, animism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, helotism, heroism, hypnotism, idealism, imperialism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, Irredentism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, militarism, minimalism, monasticism, monetarism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, optimism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, parallelism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, provincialism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tourism, truism, vandalism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism.
3	-z u m	bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm.
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Anagrams: Revisionism

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	Words within the letters "e-i-i-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-v"
	-2 letters: missioner, remission, revisions.
	-3 letters: emission, minivers, miriness, omissive, revision, riminess, simonies, verismos, versions.
	-4 letters: eonisms, ionises, ironies, isomers, ivories, meiosis, merinos, merisis, miniver, mission, missive, mossier, noisier, renvois, seniors, sermons, sonsier, verismo, verisms, version, virions, viroses, virosis, visions.
	-5 letters: enosis, envois, eonism, eosins, essoin, imines, ionise, irises, irones, isomer, merino, mesons, miners, minors, mioses.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-v"
	+1 letter: revisionisms.
	+5 letters: hypervitaminosis, interventionisms.
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Alternative Orthography: Revisionism

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Revisionism (1998)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Hungary	However, the economic situation continued to deteriorate, and Rakosi succeeded in disrupting the reforms and in forcing Nagy from power in 1955 for "right-wing revisionism." Hungary joined the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact Treaty Organization the same year. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	31	62,296

Expression	Frequency per Day
revisionism	14
holocaust revisionism	9
historical revisionism	4
anomaly historical revisionism	3
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "revisionism": revisionisms. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Revisionism

Definitions: Revisionism

Revisionism

Noun

Crosswords: Revisionism

Specialty Definition: Revisionism

Modern Usage: Revisionism

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Usage Frequency: Revisionism

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Revisionism

revisionism

holocaust revisionism

historical revisionism

anomaly historical revisionism

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Derivations: Revisionism

Derivations

Rhyming with "Revisionism"

Anagrams: Revisionism

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Alternative Orthography: Revisionism

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Bibliographic Items: "revisionism"

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