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Forgive me for a contrary opinion, but i think Lenin's concern for the workers was a ruse,  He used Marxism and the poor conditions suffered by the work force as platforms to allow him to step up to power for his ultimate goal, which was to avenge his brother's execution as a revolutionary.  I have read that he, personally, gave the order for the execution of the Czar's family, including four adolescent girls and a pre-pubescent boy, which, of courser, was the whole purpose of his return to Russia.  Then he created, essentially, the monster Joe Stalin who executed most of the old Bolsheviks who had been seduced by the ideals pronounced by Lenin, not understanding that his agenda was far different from theirs.  I think Lenin used Marxist theory to make naive reolutionary idealism look respectable and realistic, and then used the result to facilitate the vengence for his brother's death.  The Old Bolsheviks, if given independent power, may have been able to accomplish the Revolution's ideal goals, but both Lenin and Stalin had reasons to want to diffuse that process, while still paying lip service to it.  But, of course, I first learned Revolutionary History from Pasternak, by reading Zhivago.  I find far too many similarities between Lenin and Robespierre---both pursing an ideal state that could only have been raised up on the foundation of murder and bloodshed.