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.

本书只论述严格定义的欧洲殖民帝国主义，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，包含了后来产生极权主义运动和极权主义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，人惊讶的是，在这本书的政治问题上，占主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主义的。