He taught at the Party School and worked at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

He was chairman of the Expert Commission on Political Economy of the Committee on Higher Education under the USSR.

From 1966 to 1967 he was chairman of the bureau of the Scientific Council on "Economic Laws of the Development of Socialism and its Transformation into Communism."

Together with Dmitri Shepilov, he headed a group of authors and editors of the textbook Political Economy (1954), written on the basis of Joseph Stalin's instructions.

He headed the Association of Soviet Economic Scientific Institutions and was chairman of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Society.