0 someone who examines and tries to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is:
1 examining and trying to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is:
revisionist historians
revisionist biographies of Soviet leaders
Some revisionists argue the inscription could be read as a place-name.
But revisionists contend that most of those battles were his to lose, given the technical superiority of the army he commanded.
UK Throughout my political life, I have been a Labour revisionist or, as it is now called, a moderniser.
The revisionists embraced the primacy of socioeconomic forces in the 1970s and 1980s just as their reductionist dangers were becoming clear in the study of Western revolutions.
Although advertised as revisionist, the book is not significantly re-interpretive.
The phenomenon is cheered by Reaganites as an overdue tribute, though some academics see it as revisionist history taking its course.
This book is not revisionist. Instead, it's a fascinating recycling.
Like-minded academics and journalists have pushed forward a revisionist view of Japan's wartime history.
