Revisionism may refer to:

• Fictional revisionism, the retelling of a story with substantial alterations in character or environment, to "revise" the view shown in the original work
• Marxist revisionism, a pejorative term used to describe ideas based on a revision of fundamental Marxist premises
• Historical revisionism, the critical re-examination of historical facts
• Historical revisionism (negationism), a particular form of historical revisionism concerned with the denial of facts accepted by mainstream historians
• Revisionist Zionism, a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement
• Territorial revisionism, a euphemism for revanchism or irredentism, the desire to recover the territory of a nation lost in war

In fiction revisionism is the retelling of a story or type of story with substantial alterations in character or environment to "revise" the view shown in the original work The term "revisionism" is also used to refer to other concepts For the denial and distortion of well-established historical facts see Historical revisionism (negationism. For the critical reexamination of historical facts see Historical revisionism. Revisionist Zionism is a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement Revanchism (from French revanche " Revenge " is a term used since the 1870s to describe a political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial Irredentism is any position advocating Annexation of territories administered by another State on the grounds of common Ethnicity or prior historical possession

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