“宣统西迁”计划的产生与失败

Emergence and Failure of "the Xuantong Westward Movement" Plan

“宣统西迁”是清顽固保皇派在武昌起义爆发后,企图割据西北对抗革命势力,延续其自身统治的自救措施。为实现此计划,清廷在其统治末期对西北进行重大人事变动,并对西北革命进行坚决镇压。但后因清帝退位,清军镇压革命无果而破灭。“宣统西迁”作为清廷的第三次西逃计划,不仅因陕甘新三省革命的爆发而破灭,也在理论层面上无法实现,仅仅是顽固保皇派的一厢情愿,其失败也是西北地区革命军民们的伟大历史功绩。

"The Xuantong Westward Movement" was self-help measures by the diehard royalists of Qing Dynasty of trying to separate the northwest to resist the revolution and continue their own rule after the outbreak of Wuchang Uprising. In order to realize this plan, the Qing government carried out major personnel changes in the northwest at the end of its rule and resolutely suppressed the northwest revolution. However, the Qing army failed to suppress the revolution due to the abdication of the Qing emperor. The Xuantong Westward Movement, as the third westward flight plan of the Qing government, was not only broken by the outbreak of the revolution in the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Xinjiang, but also could not be realized in theory. It was only the wishful thinking of the diehard royalists, and also the great historical achievements of the revolutionary soldiers and civilians in the northwest region.