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The banquets-receptions held at the Kremlin from the mid-1930s to the beginning of the 1940s should be, in the opinion of the author, examined not as an 'unproductive form of spending time' but as events of great significance not only for the reinforcement of Stalin's personal power, but also for the consolidation of the representatives of the Soviet political, military, economic and intellectual...