James Mark is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter (UK). He is the author of the Unfinished Revolution. Making Sense of the Communist Past in Eastern Europe and co-author of 1989. A Global History of Eastern Europe. He recently co-edited a collection of populist and decolonial approaches to historical memory:  https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.342/