It tells the story of the disintegration of the nation-state that proved to contain nearly all the elements necessary for the subsequent rise of totalitarian movements and governments.

本书只论述严格定的欧洲殖民帝国，的终结以英国放弃对印度的统治为标志。道出了民族国家的解体，包含了后来产生权运动和权政府的几乎全部必要成份。

So it is all the more surprising that, on the question of the book's politics, the dominant Soviet position settled on the notion that Goncharov's sentiments were anti-colonial and anti-imperialistic.

因此，更令人惊讶的是，在这本书的政治问题上，占导地位的苏联立场决定了冈察洛夫的情绪是反殖民和反帝国的。