FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM – THE IMPERIAL PATH OF THE ASCENSION AND DECLINE OF ENGLAND IN THE XX-XXI CENTURIES

Abstract

The British Empire has become the most powerful in the world by the end of the XIX century. Having 1/4 of the worlds’s area the empire had a dramatic impact on historical and cultural development of its colonial countries. Moreover "the Great Game" which Britain was playing in Asia was aimed to prevent strengthening of Russia. After the Second World War the colonial domination began to fade away and "the New Britain" found new focus of its historical, political and socio-cultural development.