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While this area is now seldom offered as a field of study in itself, in which one might become a specialist, there are related fields emerging, as may be judged by the titles of academic journals, some of which have changed to reflect the passage of time since 1989 and the effect of the end of Soviet rule. These include: ''Communist and post-Communist studies'', ''Europe-Asia studies'', ''Post-Soviet studies'', ''Communist studies and transition politics''. The Historiography of strictly Communist studies is also changing, with some different models of its aims, as well as the major shift caused by access to archives. According to ), "conservative", "right-wing" or "anti-Communist". Norman Markowitz , a prominent revisionist, referred to them as '"triumphalist", "romantics", "rightwing romantics", and "reactionaries" who belong to the "HUAC school of CPUSA scholarship"'. Revisionists, characterized by Haynes and Klehr as Historical Revisionists , are more numerous and, furthermore, dominate Academic Institutions And Learned Journals . A suggested alternative formulation is "new historians of American communism", but that has not caught on. They would describe themselves as unbiased and scholarly and contrast their work to the work of anti-Communist traditionalists whom they would term biased and unscholarly. JOURNALS IN THE FIELD Account required for online access The following journals can only be accessed through participating institutions such as libraries or institutions of higher learning which have paid a hefty fee:
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