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Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. This is not the same as historical revisionism, a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations of history.
Historical revisionism is the means by which the historical record, the history of a society, as understood in its collective memory, continually accounts for new facts and interpretations of the events that are commonly understood as history.
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Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield," the Commander of United States forces in Vietnam said, "butlost in the halls ofCongress." Westmoreland's charge reflects re cent Vietnam War revisionism, the effort to rationalize America's defeat by claiming that United States forces were prevented from winning. Besides the politicians, who ...
- David Culver
- 1987
The most significant consequence of revisionism is that it presents an opening for China—Japan’s main security rival in the region—to attempt to ‘soft’ balance Japan by rallying international opinion against Japan in such a way as to impede other Japanese diplomatic objectives.
Jan 5, 2022 · The Interpreter. In a Race to Shape the Future, History Is Under New Pressure. A wave of misleading revisionism has become epidemic in both autocracies and democracies. It has been notably...
Dec 3, 2020 · Share. Abstract. This article reviews the reception of the New Western History, whose emergence coincided with the history and culture wars of the late twentieth century. I analyze debates and arguments created by revisionists’ writings, both within the walls of academia and beyond.
Such revisionism, if challenged (especially in heated terms) by the supporters of the previous view, can become an illegitimate form of historical revisionism known as historical negationism if it involves inappropriate methods such as: the use of forged documents or implausible distrust of genuine documents
