revisionist

CEFRC1

/ɹɪˈvɪʒənɪst/

noun · adjective

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noun
A person who challenges or changes an accepted view of history.
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noun
Extra detail
A proponent of revisionism.

Examples

The historian presented a revisionist view of the civil war.
Lenin was a revisionist.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 4

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adjective

Extra meaning

Of or pertaining to revisionism.

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The revolutionary committee of Changtien commune, Kuantien County, Liaoning Province, has led the commune members to earnestly study Chairman Mao's works and criticize revisionist theories advocated by Liu Shao-chi.

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The revolutionary committee of Changtien commune, Kuantien County, Liaoning Province, has led the commune members to earnestly study Chairman Mao's works and criticize revisionist theories advocated by Liu Shao-chi.
1971 April 26 [1971 April 17], “Take Grain As Key Link and Insure All-Round Development--Correctly Handle Relationship Between Gain and Cocoon Production and Vigorously Develop Se...
Wang interjected: "We are preparing large exhibitions of art done by workers, peasants and soldiers in cooperation with the art teachers and students. Among them is one popular work entitled 'Never Stop Struggling as Long as You Are Alive.' It is a painting depicting the story of our heroic soldiers fighting the Soviet revisionist troops when they invaded Chen Pao Island on our frontier. Yes," Wang said enthusiastically, "a new upsurge in art is taking form."
1972, Seymour Topping, Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317
The experience of the party committee of the No 2 department store of Kuantien County has shown that workers must be ideologically armed with the party's basic line if political work is to be effective in completely eliminating interference from the revisionist line, in resisting the influence of capitalist ideas in commercial work, and in enabling enterprises to firmly adhere to the socialist orientation.
1974 January 2 [1973 December 18], “Economic Work Must Never Be Divorced From the Life Blood”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 1, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Shenyang Provincial Service and Liaoning Daily, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northeast Region, page G 4
[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)

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Origin

noun

From revision + -ist.