Background
Drozdov, Aleksandr was born in 1895.
Drozdov, Aleksandr was born in 1895.
Before the 1917 Revolution, close to liberal circles. During the Civil War with the Whites, worked in the propaganda department Osvag in Rostov-on-Don. Described this period in his article ‘Intelligentsia na Donu’, published in the Archive of the Russian Revolution, vol.
3. Emigrated to Berlin, wrote novels, and regarded then as one of the brightest hopes of Russian literature. Tried to keep a neutral position between Red and White (with Iashchenko, Stankevich and others). Founded in Berlin the magazine Spolokhi, 1921.
Returned to the Soviet Union, December 1923. Wrote a novel which sharply condemned Russian emigres: Lokhmot'ia, Khar’ kov, 1928. Became a trusted Stalinist editor, working in the 1940-1950s on Molodaia Gvardia, and from the end of the 1950s on the magazine Oktiabr'.