The Historical European Revisionism

Abstract

The named historical revisionism has not as synonymous of «negacionism» with regard to the reality of the Jewis Holocaust during the Second World War, buto reazoned critique to the Marxist paradigm brings over of the character and meaning of the contemporary European age, centred on two related topics: The French Revolution and the fascism. Interpret the first one not only as origin of the capitalist society but as necessary precedent of socialist revolution of 1917. The second one defined as antithesis of socialism and in consequence, as archetype of burgues and capitalist counterrevolution. This interpretation very influential in the academic European and Nort America areas, entered crisis fron sisties and seventies, thanks to he labour of a series of historian among whom it is necessary to enphasize four names: Renzo de Felice, Georges L. Mosse, François Furet and Ernst Nolte. Their critiques were capable of revealing the scanty vality of the Marxist interpretation, not only to foresee the future or to cultivate political important project, but to the offer a wealth producing comprehension of the past.