Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is opposed to a particular measure of revision, as, in recent French history, one who is opposed to a revision of the constitution.
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Examples
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Thus, he united the leading antirevisionist revolutionaries in the CPC, who rallied forces to launch the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in May 1966 in order to carry out the theory of continuing revolution under proletarian dictatorship.
DECLARATION TO REAFFIRM THE SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCE OF THE ANTI-REVISIONIST STRUGGLE AND THE GPCR Abhay N 2007
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In the antirevisionist campaign which followed (and which involved the execution of Imre Nagy and his associates), the Chinese took the lead; and within the next two years their attacks on “modern revisionism” began to be aimed at the Soviet Union rather than the Yugoslavs.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas R. K. KINDERSLEY 1968
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These radicals therefore went back on their initial wholehearted support for the party's official antirevisionist stance which they now regarded as conservative rather than revolutionary.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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The way to take control was to make antirevisionist work. "
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