Socialism under Lenin would have been viewed as worse than neutral but better than the socialism of Stalin. I'm not going to vote because that option isn't presented. Lenin was brutal and a control freak but he wasn't paranoid like Stalin. He was an educated man who lived for many years in the West; an economic historian; and a journalist who spend years studying and commenting on the foibles of the Duma. He appears not to have been a victim of child abuse like Stalin was; if anything, his mother and his sisters spoiled him. Would he have killed a million or so out of fanaticism because he saw them as counterrevolutionaries? Yes. Would he have killed his own associates and purged his army out of a sense of paranoia and because it gave him a sadistic buzz? I doubt it. Would he have killed tens of millions simply because he had the power to do so and wanted to indirectly act out his grudges against his father? Again, I doubt it. And I don't think he would have handled the Ukrainian famine the way Stalin did. This doesn't mean the communist system would have lasted in Russia; it inevitably would have collapsed because it was based on false premises. It was something that could work, clumsily, for awhile, but inevitable people would have wanted something better.