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This podcast looks at matters mental capacity related. It features conversations between Alex Ruck Keene, a specialist barrister at 39 Essex Chambers, and a whole host of people with different perspectives on mental capacity questions. It also features audio versions of the 'shedinars' that Alex delivers about key topics in mental capacity law, full versions of which (with slides) can be found here: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/shedinars/. (Boring but necessary caveat: nothing that appears on this podcast constitutes legal advice).

The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged. Mark Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.