1898, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (the predecessor of the Soviet Union) was founded. Under its leadership, Russian workers and peasants experienced the first Russian revolution in 1905 and the bourgeois-democratic revolution that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in February19/7 (that is, the February revolution). 19 17, 165438 (65438+125 October) On June 7, it won the great victory of the October socialist revolution and established the first socialist state power in the world-the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic. Shortly after the founding of the Republic, after three years of arduous civil war, the armed intervention of 14 imperialist countries and the armed rebellion of landlords and capitalists were crushed and the Soviet regime was defended. 1922 On February 30th, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally established, and the Russian Federation joined Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia (including Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, and later expanded to 15 Soviet Republics). 1990 On June 12, the first People's Congress of the Russian Federation adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, declaring that the Russian Federation has "absolute sovereignty" within its territory. 199 1 In August, the "8 19" incident occurred in the Soviet Union. On September 6, the State Council of the Soviet Union passed a resolution recognizing the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. On February 8, 65438, the Russian Federation, Belarus and Ukraine signed the CIS Agreement in Belovezh, announcing the establishment of the CIS. 65438+February 2 1, 1 1 The republics of the former Soviet Union decided in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, that the seat of the former Soviet Union in the UN Security Council would be inherited by Russia. On February 25th, 65438, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic decided to change the official name of the country to "Russian Federation". On February 26th, 65438, the House of the Republic of supreme soviet of the ussr held its last meeting and declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed. At this point, the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Russian Federation became a completely independent country.

1April 1992 16, the Sixth People's Congress of Russia decided to change the country name to "Russia", thus restoring the historical name; 17 finally decided to use the two official country names "Russian Federation" and "Russia", which have the same status. 1993 12 February 12. The first constitution of Russia after independence was adopted by referendum, which stipulated that the name of the country was "Russian Federation", which had the same meaning as "Russia".