I'm interested in understanding historical revisionism in the context of, specifically, if there have been attempts to document when major revisions took place, what topics were changed and how those changes have affected historical understanding, both pre and post revision.
The subject is called historiography and yes, if you look up the historiography of any subject--say the historiography of the Cold War or something--in Amazon books or just google scholar. You should be able to find a ton of studies by historians looking at the way other historians in the past have written about the subject, how current events impact historical narratives about the past, and theories on why our perceptions of the past change over time and why some narratives win out over others. In fact, it's usually a requirement for history majors and PHD students to study historiography, so there's just a lot out there. It's a pretty fascinating subject, especially since historical revisionism happens ALL the time. Everybody's got an opinion... :)