Education
1924 graduate Leningrad Business Institute. 1931 graduate Institute of Red Professor.
1924 graduate Leningrad Business Institute. 1931 graduate Institute of Red Professor.
1917-1919 machinist in locomotive workshops. 1919-1921 regt comissar, Red Army. From 1924 edited provincial newspaper and headed Agitation Department, Novgorod Province Party Committee.
1932-1938 director, Red Professor Institute of Philosophy. Also edited various central periodicals, taught philosophy and Party history and engaged in Party work. 1937-1946 head, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Association of State Publ Houses.
1938-1944 director, Institute of Philosphy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1939-1953 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1943-1948 head, Chair of Marxism-Leninism, Moscow University.
1946-1953 chief ed, journal “Sovetskaya kniga”. 1947 chief ed, newspaper “Trud”. 1953 political adviser to chairman, Soviet Control Commission, and also Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy High Commissioner in Germany.
1953-1959 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics ambassador to China. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1950 and 1954 convocations. 1952 and 1956 at 19th and 20th Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congresses elected member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Wrote works on historical materialism and political economics.
