Neither Lenin not Trotsky was working class. Lenin was a lawyer by education and Trotsky the son of rich farmers. Krushchev, Stalin, and Kaganovich were working class.
--- Marv Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca:
Intellectuals from privileged backgrounds have sometimes affected muscular working class lifestyles, including identification with working class political parties and unions and utopias, as a repudiation of their class origins and to distinguish themselves from other intellectuals whom US society, in particular, generally regards as effete and bourgeois. Remember all the would-be Che Guevaras on university campuses in the 60's sporting bushy beards and long hair and army surplus clothing and would-be Lenins and Trotskys with their rimless glasses and goatees? If such harmless role-playing contributed to the protest movements against the war in Vietnam and for civil rights and women's and gay liberation, it would be wrong to compare it to Marie Antoinette's faux peasant villages.