the crisis of modern civilisation by p.v. kuryan preface

promising begininings often end in grotesque disappointments. This has been my fate and the fate of  millions of my countrymen and the  idealists all over the world. . 20th century began  reverbating with the revolutionary slogans of the students and youth in the streets of Beijing under the inspiration of Dr.Suyatsan. Its adolescwnce was marked with the workers of petrogard without organisations and leadership for citing the all powerfulRussian Tsar ro abdicate in february 1917 followed by october Revolution undr Lenin and Trotsky. In the twenties saw awakening of the mute and hungru millions of India challenging mighty British empire  under the leadership of that half naked Fakir MahatmaGandhi. In the end of the thirties the socialists, communists, the idealists and the democrats of Europe fought the spanish civil war against Fascism. But the centurary ahich witnessed these four great Revolutions is coming to an unrevolutionary and tragic end. Nuclear unicentral world dominated by American dollar and nuclear bomd has ultimately emerged. Areas of darkness are speading. Why these four great Revolutions did fail? The intellectuals has not applied his mind to this great questions. it has taken for granted. if this book creats in their minds a ripple of doubt and makes him question the tenets of this civilisation. Iwill  feel more rewarded.
P.V. Kuryan.