revisionist

Examples of revisionism

revisionism
However, the notion of 'revisionism' with respect to 1956 had a somewhat broader meaning.
This revisionism nonetheless affirmed the conventional wisdom about the loss of forest as the net result.
These range from accounts based on geographical determinism to those of historical revisionism.
However, the crucial feature of intellectual 'revisionism' in 1956 - its social isolation - continued in the 1960s.
In short, the chronological and philosophical distinctions between orthodoxy and revisionism do not coincide neatly.
But the honest among such theorists are prepared to confess revisionism.
This optimistic revisionism is tempered by much of the rest of the book.
The analysis given here might help us to face another problem raised by the idea of ' revisionism'.
That above all is what revisionism has taught us to avoid.
Permanent revisionism is now the order of the day.
However, the 'revisionism' of the 1960s was different from that of 1956.
Revisionism is a salutary reaction against social determinism and holism, largely in the form of an attack on anachronism and its consequences.
But this is not a phenomenon specific to revisionism.
But revisionism itself, under critical fire, has almost disappeared, partly because of the achievements of both political and economic historians.
It is primarily the fear of the costs of territorial revisionism that makes states select the territorial integrity norm.
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