Having been secretary of the Caucaus Bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency from 1921–22, Agapov moved to Moscow in 1922 to continue his career as a journalist.
In the wake of the formation of NATO, Agitprop against American culture was ordered to be intensified, giving rise to a scramble among Soviet journalists to find more original ways to present anti-American views.
He commented on a recent issue of Time (23 January 1950), depicting the Mark III dressed in American military clothing on its cover, as making it "immediately clear in whose service [it] is employed".
[6] Its significance has been questioned by scholar Valery Shilov, instead proposing Mikhail Yaroshevsky's [ru] 1952 article as the beginning of the campaign against Soviet cybernetics.
[2] Slavic studies scholar Wolfgang Kasack was less flattering, pithily summarising that "he wrote uninteresting stories devoted to the socialism building [...] [and] was [a] popularizer of actual events in economics and science".