Most people are eligible to start a Roth IRA. But your eligibility for a Roth IRA may be affected by your income. If you earn too much, you may not be able to contribute. The chart below shows the limits for 2016. For 2016, you can contribute $5,500, in total, to all your IRAs. You can contribute $6,500 if you are older than 50.
Communism in Russia. Communism began in Russia with the rise of the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Lenin. They led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the current government and took power. Lenin was a follower of Marxist philosophies.
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR upon its founding in 1922. Lenin held the highest post in the Soviet government until his death in 1924, when Joseph Stalin assumed power. Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in the city of Simbirsk in central European Russia.