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-'''Historical revisionism''' has both a legitimate academic use and a pejorative meaning. +:''[[secret history]]''
-The pejorative use refers to illegitimate manipulation of history for political purposes, for example [[Holocaust denial]]. +
-Within the academic field of [[history]], '''historical revisionism''' is the critical reexamination of historical facts, with an eye towards rewriting histories with newly discovered information. The assumption is that history as it has been traditionally told may not be entirely accurate.+'''Revisionism''' may refer to:
-== See also ==+*[[Historical revisionism]], the critical re-examination of presumed historical facts and existing [[historiography]]
-*[[Historical revisionism]]+** The "revisionists" school of thought in [[Soviet and Communist studies]], as opposed to the Cold War "traditionalists" school.
-* [[Secret history]]+*[[Historical revisionism (negationism)]], a particular form of historical revisionism concerned with the denial of facts accepted by mainstream historians
-* [[Pseudohistory]]+*[[Holocaust denial]], any of various claims that standard scholarly descriptions of the Holocaust are substantially erroneous, particularly the denials made by [[David Irving]]
-* [[Black Legend]]+*[[Revisionism (Marxism)|Marxist revisionism]], a pejorative term used by some Marxists to describe ideas based on a ''revision'' of fundamental Marxist premises
-* [[The Inquisition myth]]+*[[Revisionism (fictional)|Fictional revisionism]], the retelling of a story with substantial alterations in character or environment, to "revise" the view shown in the original work
-* [[Continuity thesis ]]+*Territorial revisionism, a euphemism for [[revanchism]] or [[irredentism]]
-* ''[[Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century]]''+* The reevaluation of one's experiences with a [[hindsight bias]].
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