Gregory Maguire, author of the revisionist Oz novels Wicked and Son of a Witch, has written that The Emerald City of Oz " is suffused with an elegiac quality " and compares its tone with that of The Last Battle, the final volume of C. S. Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia.

Jesus Lava, the General Secretary of the PKP was repudiated as counterrevolutionary revisionist and also the gangster clique of Pedro Taruc-Sumulong in the old people's army of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan ( HMB ), remnant of the Hukbalahap in Central Luzon.

In 1995, Gregory Maguire published Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz.

According to the revisionist version of the Oz history chronicled in Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the slippers were given to Nessarose, the future Wicked Witch of the East, by her father.

Ruhnama ( The Book of the Soul ), is a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, late President for Life of Turkmenistan, combining spiritual / moral guidance, autobiography and revisionist history ; much of it is of dubious or disputed factuality and accuracy.

While not exactly a villain, Dorothy is not the hero in Gregory Maguire's revisionist 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

* In author Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( a 1995 revisionist novel based on the inhabitants of Oz ) and in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), the Wizard is a tyrannical ruler who uses deceit and trickery to hide his own shortcomings.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, Quadling Country is described as a largely undeveloped, swampy region, with the ruddy-faced Quadlings being portrayed as artistic and sexually free.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, this area is called the Vinkus, and it is revealed that " Winkie " is considered a derogatory term.

In Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, she is initially called " Galinda ," and ( through her mother ) is descended from the noble clan of the Arduennas of the Upland.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Emerald City is a much darker place than in Baum's novels.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Gillikin Country is simply called ' Gillikin '.

The Tin Woodman is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation and Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch.

The evergreen Sherlock Holmes was given the first of many revisionist treatments in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ( 1970 ).

In his revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire portrays a very different version of the Land of Oz.

A somewhat sinister version of Tik-Tok is a minor character in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

The Cowardly Lion is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation.

In that film adaptation, as in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its musical adaptation Wicked, the Witch of the West is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East, although this is neither stated nor implied in the original novel.

* Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch ( given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum ) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.

A mock-Victorian revisionist version of Romeo and Juliet's final scene ( with a happy ending, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Paris restored to life, and Benvolio revealing that he is Paris's love, Benvolia, in disguise ) forms part of the 1980 stage-play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Both Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the musical Wicked ( based on the book ), follow the model of the 1939 movie in giving the name " Glinda " to the character who grows up to become The Good Witch of the North.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, " Pastorius " was the widower of Ozma the Bilious, who died from an apparently accidental poisoning, and father to Ozma Tippetarius, who was approximately the same age as Elphaba.

This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for “ concrete philosophy ,” which, he declared in 1928, “ concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence .” These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.

Their representatives said that existing socialist countries were revisionist, and claimed to be the vanguard of the world communist movement.

Other scholars acknowledge distortion of the historical record by apartheid supporters and shady white traders seeking to cover their tracks, but dispute the revisionist approach, noting that stories of cannibalism, raiding, burning of villages, or mass slaughter were not developed out of thin air but based on the clearly documented accounts of hundreds of black victims, and refugees.

Opponents of this view include revisionist historians and a number of post – Cold War and otherwise dissident Soviet historians including Roy Medvedev, who argues that although " one could list the various measures carried out by Stalin that were actually a continuation of anti-democratic trends and measures implemented under Lenin ... in so many ways, Stalin acted, not in line with Lenin's clear instructions, but in defiance of them ".

These early revisionist discourses were joined by a popular movement of appropriation, which invoked the global memory of the Holocaust

It called this a ' smear ' which was ' completely at variance with the facts ' because ' revisionist scholars ' such as Faurisson, Butz ' and bestselling British historian David Irving acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed and otherwise perished during the Second World War as a direct and indirect result of the harsh anti-Jewish policies of Germany and its allies '.

A revisionist view is that such rights were more common in the 11th century throughout the Conquest, but were largely suppressed in England, and survived in the Marches.

In response, Soviet historians produced revisionist histories to help the ETR justify its own claims to sovereignty, with statements such as that the Uyghurs were the " most ancient Turkic people " that had contributed to world civilization.

The history of Caucasian Albania has been a major topic of Azerbaijani revisionist theories, which came under criticism in Western and Russian academic and analytical circles, and were often characterized as “ bizarre ” and “ futile .”

Anti-Armenian cultural vandalism in Azerbaijan perpetrated with the use of revisionist theories on Caucasian Albania was also noted in northern Azerbaijan, where Norwegian archeologists were involved in the restoration of an Armenian-Georgian church in the village of Kish near the city of Shaki.

The arguments in Taylor's Origins of the Second World War ( sometimes described as " revisionist ") were rejected by many historians at the time and reviews of his book in Britain and the United States were generally critical.

Similar revisionist views were expressed by Rabbi Isaac Ber Levinsohn and other traditional representatives of the Haskalah movement.

Within the field of U. S. diplomatic history, he is most associated with the concept of ' post-revisionism ,' the idea of moving past the revisionist and orthodox interpretations of the origins of the Cold War to embrace what were ( in the 1970s ) interpretations based upon the then-growing availability of government documents from the United States, Great Britain and other western government archives.

Hoxhaists also argue that the theory of New Democracy and People's War were revisionist and anti-scientific.

As the leadership became more moderate in its outlook and the initial aims of the Cultural Revolution were sidelined, Chen's radicalism caused concern, and he was condemned as a ' revisionist secret agent ' by the CCP's Tenth Congress in 1973.

The IC opposed the revisionist Trotskyists led by Michel Pablo, who were organized in the International Secretariat ( IS ).

At the same time, various revisionist claims were made on ancient peoples of the region and beyond.

Déat and other Neosocialists were expelled from the SFIO at the 5 November 1933 Congress, for their revisionist views and disagreements with Léon Blum's policies toward Prime Minister Édouard Herriot, leader of the second Cartel des Gauches ( Left-Wing Coalition ).

The Neo-Socialist faction inside of the SFIO, which included Marcel Déat and Pierre Renaudel, were expelled during the November 1933 Congress, because of their revisionist stances and admiration for Fascism.

They opposed the leadership of the SDAP, who were more oriented towards more a revisionist ideology and a parliamentary and reformist political strategy.

The New Wave filmmakers were particularly given to revisionist explorations of popular genres, like the thriller ( Hui's 1979 The Secret, Tam's 1981 Love Massacre ), martial arts ( Tsui's 1979 The Butterfly Murders, Tam's 1980 The Sword ) and crime ( Alex Cheung's 1979 Cops and Robbers, Yim's 1980 The Happenings ).

Examination of Germany's pre – World War I imperial aims demonstrates that many of the ideas which would later surface in Nazi thought were not novel, but simply continuations of the same revisionist strategic aims.