Despite I suspect your question to be a rhetorical one, I will however still answer it: historical revisionism did not start or end with Fomenko, it is arguable that it started with Newton in his “The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms”; and Fomenko followed the work of Nikolai A. Morozov. Some other revisionists I know of, in no particular order:Mansur wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:06 pm If one 'starts with Fomenko', let me ask, what does one continue with?
Fomenko does not write history, he simply denies it. Because no one can seriously believe that he, with his computer programs and algorithms (he is a mathematician), has discovered some new, deeper meaning to history than has been hitherto understood by anyone. Of course, he claims no such thing. Doesn't even need one.
Andrei Stepanenko
Andrei Postogarov
Robert Baldauf
Christoph Pfister
Edwin Johnson
Gunter Ullrich
Wilhelm Kammeier
Gunnar Heinsohn
Uwe Topper
Emmet Scott
Syrian Tristan
etc
And then there’s a new breed of internet historians who don’t publish books as well.
As to the point of revisionists only deny history: I would consider that a mischaracterization, some shift the timeline around without denying the events happen, some deny certain events altogether, and some create new theories as to what actually happened (this happens most often with Bible researchers). Also, how are we to make sense of history if the chronology we know of is in fact false? Case in point, how are we to interpret the wars waged by United States if we believe 911 and the other terrorism events to be real, versus when we believe them to be fake?
Finally, as to ‘finding meaning’ in history - I doubt it is the job of historians to find meaning, that would be the job of anthropologists - who prefer to work with myths and legends, so that’s a whole other field quite different from what we are talking about