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- noun Plural form of
revisionist .
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"gung-ho history-revisionists" i've gone through the standards and think that the term revisionists does them an injustice. when you consider how many schools have their students reading howard zinn i'm glad to see some movement back to the center but thanks for giving them a well deserved 'thank you'
Highland Park TX | outside.in Crazy Right-Wingers Are Sane on Charter Schools 2010
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The pejorative label revisionists was sometimes attached to these challengers, but a more accurate term is just critics.
Spero News 2009
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(At the same time, for historical reasons, we will occasionally refer to Bernstein, or Krushchev, Liu Shaoqui, Breznev, Honecker, Kim Jung Il, Gus Hall, Hoxha or Deng Xiaoping as "revisionists" - since that is the shorthand used in the international communist movement.)
Kasama 2010
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Those who followed the peaceful process to capture power were identified as revisionists and those who practiced and supported armed revolution were known as revolutionaries.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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The so-called revisionists—an anti-Dunning school—restudied the Reconstruction era and concluded it was not as bad as previously pictured.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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The so-called revisionists—an anti-Dunning school—restudied the Reconstruction era and concluded it was not as bad as previously pictured.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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These are called revisionists in Germany, reformists in France, Italy, and Switzerland ....
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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Mary dismissed "revisionists" who focused on the lack of WMD rather than on Iraq's capacity to build WMD in the volatile Middle East; Arianna argued that Iraq, at a cost of $3 trillion and hundreds of thousands of causalities, was "America's most profound foreign policy mistake."
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As with Holocaust deniers, there is an active camp of Bosnia "revisionists" who argue that the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre never happened.
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Zuroff's distortion of history is no less than that undertaken by the 'revisionists' who deny the Holocaust.
Archive 2009-10-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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