[7] He was also one of the few “group of fifty-three” with experience in the youth section of the Communist party, where he helped organizing the local educational society.
At the time of his arrest in 1937, Kabakhsh was an instructor in engineering at the military academy and the manager of the army mechanics school outside Tehran.
The contacts he made in these years, proved highly useful later when the Tudeh decided to form cells within the military.
[8][9] In the introduction of Kambakhsh's book the Workers’ and Communist Movement in Iran, Ehsan Tabari named him the only Iranian who was trusted by Joseph Stalin and the Soviets.
[10] Scholar Maziar Behrooz argues that "Kambakhsh was not a theorist but a party functionary with strong personal connections to the Soviets".