Aldanov, Mark

Aldanov, Mark

▪ Russian writer
pseudonym of  Mark Aleksandrovich Landau  
born Oct. 26 [Nov. 7, New Style], 1889, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire
died Feb. 25, 1957, Nice, France

      Russian émigré writer best known for work bitterly critical of the Soviet system.

      In 1919 Aldanov emigrated to France, which he left for the United States in 1941, although six years later he returned to France. He wrote an essay on Lenin (1921); Deux révolutions (1921; “Two Revolutions”), a work comparing the Russian and French revolutions; Actinochimie (1936; “Actinic Chemistry”), a scientific treatise; and many novels. Most of Aldanov's works were translated into English, including a tetralogy on revolutionary France, Myslitel (1923–25; The Thinker); an anti-Soviet satire, Nachalo kontsa (1939; The Fifth Seal); and Istoki (1947; Before the Deluge), a picture of Europe in the 1870s.

      Aldanov enjoyed a reputation of great moral authority among Russian émigrés. He was one of the founders in New York City of the émigré journal Novy Zhurnal (“The New Magazine”). Aldanov's works and materials from his archives were published during the glasnost years in the six-volume Sobraniye sochineny (1991–93; “Collected Works”). By the late 1990s, however, Aldanov's popularity had diminished as the political significance of his work faded.

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